Johann Christoph Röhling (27 April 1757 – 19 December 1813) was a German botanist and

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who was a native of Gundernhausen, a town near

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. He studied

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, and later taught school in

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. In 1792 he became a pastor in

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, and in 1800, a parish priest in

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. Röhling was the author of "''Deutschlands Flora''", an important treatise on German flora, of which the first edition was published in 1796. He also published a work on

mosses Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta ('' sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and h ...

of Germany titled "''Deutschlands Moose''" (1800). He was the

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of the plant genus ''Melandrium'' (family

Caryophyllaceae Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactace ...

). The plant genus ''Roehlingia'' (family

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) was named after him by

August Wilhelm Dennstedt August Wilhelm Dennstedt (1776–1826), surname sometimes spelled Dennstaedt, was a German physician and botanist who was bürgermeister of Magdala, a town near Weimar. From 1817 he was scientific director of the Grand Ducal Garden in Belved ...

.Roehlingia
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