Karl Friedrich Reiche

Karl Friedrich Reiche ( Spanish Carlos Reiche; born October 31, 1860 in Dresden, † February 26, 1929 in Munich) was a German botanist and university professor in Chile and Mexico. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " rich ".

Life

Rich received his doctorate in 1885 in Leipzig with the conclusion of Dr. phil. He was korrespondiertes member of the German Botanical Society.

Rich was a professor in Mexico; he also worked at the National Museum of Santiago de Chile. Rich explored the flora of Mexico and Chile. For the work " The natural plant families" of Adolf Engler and Prantl Carl in the first edition ( 1890-1897 ), he wrote Contributions to numerous plant families.

After the kingdom of the plant genera Reichea are (today Myrcianthes ) was named from the myrtle family, Reichenecactus from the cactus family and empires Ella from the carnation family.

Works

  • Broad distribution of plants in Chile. Leipzig 1907 (Reprint Gantner: Vaduz, 1976). ( 8 The earth's vegetation )
  • Crisscross Mexico. From the hiking book by a German scholar. Leipzig: German book workshops G.m.b.H. 1930 First task.
  • Críticos Estudios de la Flora de Chile .. 1894-1911.
  • Botánica Geografía de Chile., 1934.
  • La vegetación de los alrededores de la capital de México. In 1924.
  • Flora excursoria en el Valle Central de México. , 1926.

Herbarium

Rich was a freelancer at the Botanical State Collection, which is located in the administration building of the Botanical Garden Munich -Nymphenburg.

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