Organisation(s)
B (main), AUT, BM, BP, C, CAIM, CORD, GE, GOET, HBG, K, L, LE, MO, P, W, WRSL
Countries
Europe: Austria, Germany, ItalyNorth Africa: Egypt, Libya
Associate(s)
Graebner, Karl Otto Robert Peter Paul (1871-1933) (co-collector)
Graebner, Paul (1900-1978) (co-collector)
Kuhn (co-collector)
Kuntze, Carl (Karl) Ernst (Eduard) Otto (1843-1907) (co-collector)
Reinhardt, Otto Wilhelm Hermann (1838-1924) (co-collector)
Reiszmann (co-collector)
Rohlfs, Gerhard (1831-1896) (described collections)
Biography
German botanist, ethnographer and historian from Berlin who trained initially in medicine before turning to botany. Paul Ascherson was employed as an Assistant (1860-1865) and latterly Curator (1865-1884) at the Berlin botanical gardens. He gained his doctorate from the University of Rostock (1873) and was appointed Professor at the University of Berlin (1884). He made a number of expeditions to Africa (1873-1887) and described the plants collected by G. Rohlfs and A. Stecker (1879) on a landmark Saharan expedition to the Libyan desert. Ascherson was mainly known as a leading authority on the Central European flora. His original herbarium at B was largely destroyed during the Second World War. The genera Aschersoniodoxa Gilg & Muschl. in the Brassicaceae and Bisaschersonia Kuntze in the Ebenaceae were named in his honour.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 36; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 4, 56; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 43; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): 72; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 748, 779;
