Otto Stapf

Otto Stapf ( born March 23, 1857 in Perneck in Bad Ischl; † August 3, 1933 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Stapf ."

Life and work

Otto Stapf in 1882 received his doctorate and his habilitation in 1887 at the University of Vienna. From 1891 to 1922 he was in England Head of the Herbarium at Kew.

For the work of Flora capensis of the English botanist William Turner Thiselton Dyer he edited " Gramineae " for Volume 7 ( 1898-1900 ). For the plant, the natural plant families of Adolf Engler and Prantl Carl he edited " Pedaliaceae, Martyniaceae " ( Volume 4 Number 3 b, 1895). At the Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver he wore " Gramineae " at ( Volume 9, 1917-1920 ) and other families from Volume 4 ( 1904).

Honors

Stapf in 1908 was elected as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society. He was also a member of the Linnean Society of London, which in 1927 awarded him the Linnean Medal.

The plant genera Stapfiella Gilg. from the family of Safranmalvengewächse ( Turneraceae ) O. Kuntze Stapfiola from the family of grasses ( Poaceae or Gramineae ) and Stapfiophyton HLLi, from the family of Black Mouth family ( Melastomataceae ) have been named after him.

Writings (selection )

• The Aconite of India. In 1905.