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Braun, Alexander Karl (Carl) Heinrich (1805-1877)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Alexander Karl (Carl) Heinrich
Last name
Braun
Initials
A.K.(C.)H.
Life Dates
1805 - 1877
Collecting Dates
1848 - 1869
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae Bryophytes Fossil plants Fungi Pteridophytes Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
B (main), LZ (main), AUT, BERN, BM, BR, C, CGE, F, FB, FH (currently GH), G-DC, GI, GL, H, HBG, KBG, KIEL, KR, L, LD, LE, M, MANCH, NCY, NMW, NY, OXF, P, PC, S, SI, STR, UPS, W, WRSL
Countries
Europe: Germany, France, Switzerland
Associate(s)
Rabenhorst, Gottlob (Gottlieb) Ludwig (1806-1881) (co-collector)
Stizenberger, Ernst (1827-1895) (co-collector)
Biography
German botanist and leading morphologist who was professor of botany at Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Giessen and Berlin. Cryptogamic exsiccatae were acquired by BM and further material was purchased with the Shuttleworth Herbarium (1877).
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 83; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 21; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 94; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 105; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): 307; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 726;
Braun, Alexander Karl (Carl) Heinrich (1805-1877)
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