Hermann Harms

Hermann August Theodor Harms ( * July 16, 1870 in Berlin, † November 27, 1942 in Berlin) was a German botanist and taxonomist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Harms ".

Life and work

Harms was a botanist at the Botanical Museum in Berlin. He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Harms was also longtime editors of Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler for the 1900-1953 published in 107 Staple " The plant kingdom ". For the work " The natural plant families" of Engler and Prantl Carl he wrote the chapters to several plant families, including through the Bromeliaceae ( 1930).

Harms is the author of important works on the plant genus Nepenthes. In 1938 he revised this genus and created the three subgenera Anurosperma, Eunepenthes and Mesonepenthes. He was also interested in the genus Passiflora.

Ehrentaxon

The plant genus Harmsia Schum. from the mallow family ( Malvaceae ) has been named after him.

Works

• Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre & Harms Hermann: Genera siphonogamarum ad systematically Englerianum conscripta. Leipzig: G. Engelmann, 1900-1907
• Alfred Cogniaux & Hermann Harms: Cucurbitaceae Cucurbiteae - Cucumerinae. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1924 ( reprint Weinheim 1966)

Swell

• Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names. 13th edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.