Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner (1873-1959) was a Swiss

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

and plant

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.Nationaal Herbarium Nederland
Biographical page
retrieved 2009-03-30 A native of

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, he studied

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and natural sciences in

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. In 1896 he was an assistant to

John Isaac Briquet John Isaac Briquet (13 March 1870 in Geneva – 26 October 1931 in Geneva) was a Switzerland, Swiss botanist, director of the ''Conservatoire Botanique'' at Geneva. He received his education in natural sciences at Geneva and Berlin,

at the ''Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques'' at Geneva. In 1901 he made a scientific trip to

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, and in 1903–05 was associated with the botanic gardens (

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) at

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in the

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. In 1906 he was named

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of the ''Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques'', where in 1931 he was appointed director. In 1919 he became a professor of botany.BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications As a taxonomist, he circumscribed many botanical species. The genus ''

Hochreutinera ''Hochreutinera'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. Its native range is in Central and South America. It is found in the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Paraguay. The ...

'' is named after him, as are taxa with specific epithet of ''hochreutineri''. Among his numerous written works was a monograph on the plant family

Malvaceae Malvaceae (), or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species. Well-known members of economic importance include Theobroma cacao, cacao, Cola (plant), cola, cotton, okra, Hibiscus sabdariffa, ...

Published works

* ''Études Sur Les Phanérogames Aquatique Du Rhône Et Du Port De Genève'', 1896 – Studies of aquatic

phanerogam A seed plant or spermatophyte (; New Latin ''spermat-'' and Greek ' (phytón), plant), also known as a phanerogam (taxon Phanerogamae) or a phaenogam (taxon Phaenogamae), is any plant that produces seeds. It is a category of embryophyte (i.e. la ...

s of the

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and the Geneva harbor. * ''Une famille de botanistes, les Candolle'', 1898 - A family of botanists, the Candolles. * ''Revision du genre Hibiscus'', 1900 - Revision of the genus ''

Hibiscus ''Hibiscus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Malva, mallow family, Malvaceae. The genus is quite large, comprising List of Hibiscus species, several hundred species that are Native plant, native to warm temperate, Subtropics, subtropical ...

''. * ''Malvaceae'', 1902. * ''Les Sud-Oranais; études floristiques et phytogéographiques faites au cours d'une exploration dans le Sud-Ouest de l'Algérie en 1901'', 1904 - Southern

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floristic {{Short pages monitor ''Did you mean: "Floristics Floristics is the study of plants of geographical regions. It is a branch of phytogeography, which technically makes it a branch of botany, geography, and a subbranch of biogeography. Harvard Un ...

and phytogeographical studies, etc. * "Plantae Bogorienses exsiccatae novae vel minus cocnitae...", 1904. * "Critical Notes on New Or Little Known Species in the Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden", 1910. * ''La philosophie d'un naturaliste'', 1911.
Notes sur les Tiliacées avec descriptions d’espèces, de sections et de sous-familles nouvelles ou peu connues.
''Annuaire du Conservatoire et du Jardin botanique de Genève'' 18: 68–128, 1914. * "Plantae Humbertianae madagascarenses", 1932. * "Dr. John Briquet, 1870-1931", 1932 - biography of John Isaac Briquet.WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by Benedict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner

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