Ernst Georg Pritzel Explained

Ernst Georg Pritzel
Birth Date:15 May 1875
Death Place:Berlin, Germany
Nationality:German
Fields:Botany
phytogeography
taxonomy

Ernst Georg Pritzel (15 May 1875 – 6 April 1946) was a German botanist.

He is known for his research in the fields of phytogeography and taxonomy. He contributed works on Lycopodiaceae, Psilotaceae and Pittosporaceae to Engler & Prantl’s "Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien".[1]

In 1900–02, with Ludwig Diels, he collected plants in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. They published the results of their expedition (a collection of 5700 species) in the Botanische Jahrbücher in 1904–05. Their findings included 235 new species.[2]

The fungi genus Pritzeliella was named after him by Paul Christoph Hennings in 1903[1] and Melaleuca pritzelii (originally Melaleuca densa var. pritzelii) by Karel Domin in 1923.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/pritzel-ernst.html Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, Australian National Herbarium
  2. http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000006730 JSTOR
  3. Web site: Brophy. Joseph J.. Craven. Lyndley A.. Doran. John C.. Melaleucas: their botany, essential oils and uses. Australian centre for international agricultural research. 18 April 2015. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304195255/http://aciar.gov.au/files/mn156-species-p-r_1.pdf. dead.
  4. http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/viaf-254257138 WorldCat Identities