Rechinger, Karl (1867-1952)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Karl
Last name
Rechinger
Initials
K.
Life Dates
1867 - 1952
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes
Fungi
Spermatophytes
Unknown
Organisation(s)
W (main), BM, BR, C, E, G, GB, GJO, GZU, H, K, LD, M, MPU, NMW, OXF, STR, US
Countries
Europe: Greece, AustriaAustralasia: Papua New Guinea, Solomon IslandsPacific region: Samoa
Associate(s)
Rechinger, Karl Heinz (1906-1998) (son)
Rechinger, Lily (1880-1973) (co-collector, wife)
Biography
Austrian botanist at the Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum. Rechinger joined the University Botanical Garden after gaining his PhD in 1893 at the University of Vienna. He moved to the Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum in 1902, where he was curator of the botany department from 1918-1922. In 1905 Rechinger undertook an expedition to the Pacific with his wife, Lily Rechinger-Favarger, during which they collected plants in Samoa, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Rechinger subsequently produced several publications dealing with their findings between 1907 and 1915, including "Plantae novae pacificae" (1907, in Repertorium novarum specierum regni vegetabilis) and Vegetationsbilder aus dem Neu-Guinea-Archipel (1908). Rechinger's son, Karl Heinz Rechinger, went on to become director of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.

Sources:
M.J. van Steenis Kruseman, "Cyclopedia of Collectors", Flora Malesiana, online edn:
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FMCollectors/R/RechingerK.htm.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 524; Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 392;
Rechinger, Karl (1867-1952)
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