Jean-Louis Kralik Explained

Jean-Louis Kralik (1813, Strasbourg  - 1892, Tresserve) was a French botanist.^[1]

He worked as a professor in Strasbourg, and for a period of time was curator of Philip Barker Webb's herbarium. From 1855 to 1885 he was curator of Ernest Cosson's herbarium. As a botanical collector, he conducted extensive investigation of North African flora on expeditions to Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt.^[2] Kralik distributed herbarium specimens in three exsiccatae, namely Algae Schousboeanae, Plantes Corses 1849 and Reliquiae Mailleanae.^[3]

The genus Kralikia (synonym Tripogon) was named in his honor by Cosson and Michel Charles Durieu de Maisonneuve.^{[4] [5]}

Published works

• Catalogue des plantes observées en Syrie et en Palestine de décembre 1850 à avril 1851, (with Louis Félicien de Saulcy, Ernest Cosson and Jean-Hippolyte Michon) - Catalog of plants seen in Syria and Palestine from December 1850 to April 1851.
• Notes sur quelques plantes rares ou nouvelles : recueillies, en 1854, par M.L. Kralik dans le sud de la régence de Tunis, (with Ernest Cosson); 1857 - Notes on some new and rare plants, collected in 1854 in the south of the Régence de Tunis.
• Catalogue Des Reliquiae Mailleanae (1869) - A catalogue of the herbarium collections of Alphonse Maille.^[6]

External links

• IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Kralik.

Notes and References

1. http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/187062.html Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences
2. http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000004561?history=true JSTOR Global Plants
3. Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
4. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068903#page/687/mode/1up BHL
5. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?24811 GRIN Taxonomy for Plants
6. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-kralik,%20jean%20louis$1813%201892 WorldCat Identities