Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer

Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer ( born March 26, 1846 in Königsberg, † December 3, 1906 in Heidelberg ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Pfitzer ".

Life

Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer studied under Carl Gustav Sanio (1832-1891), Robert Caspary and Wilhelm Hofmeister. In 1872 he became professor of botany and director of the Botanical Gardens Heidelberg. Its rich beds of orchids he used to develop a new orchids system that took into account both vegetative and floral characteristics. This he improved the systematic classification of John Lindley. He named so in his work Morphological studies on the Orchideenblüthe, numerous genres, including Paphiopedilum. He is one of the botanical correspondent of Charles Darwin.

In 1906 he visited England for the last time, to speak at the International Conference on Breeding Questions ( International Conference on Hybridization and Cross -Breeding ), which was groundbreaking for the nomenclature of the horticultural varieties. In his contribution hybridization as a proof of natural affinity among orchids he spoke first to the need to also mention the hybrids between genera and morphologically and systematically classified.

Ehrentaxon

1998 named Karl Heinz Senghas the orchid genus Pfitzeria.

Writings

In Adolf Engler and Prantl Carl works The natural plant families he worked the orchids (published in 1889).

• Morphological studies on the Orchideenblüthe. In 1886.
• Design a natural arrangement of orchids., 1887.
• Contributions to the systematics of the orchid. In 1895.
• Wilhelm Hofmeister. Carl Winter, Heidelberg, 1903.