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Johann Andreas Kneucker

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Johann Andreas Kneucker (24 January 1862 – 22 December 1946) was a German botanical collector who was a native of Wenkheim, a village that today is part of the community of Werbach, Baden-Württemberg.

Up until 1923 he was a schoolteacher in Karlsruhe, afterwards working as curator of the natural history collection in Baden. During his career he collected plants in southern Europe and northern Africa (Sinai Peninsula).

Kneucker specialized in the botanical family Cyperaceae (sedges). He created several exsiccatae collections, and a number of his specimens are now kept in the herbarium at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Karlsruhe. He was founder of the botanical magazine, Allgemeinen Botanischen Zeitschrift.

In 1905 the algae genus Kneuckeria was named in his honor by Wilhelm Schmidle (1860–1951);[1] the plant species Linaria kneuckeri (Bornm.) is also named after him.[2]

Publications

  • Bemerkungen zu den "Gramineae exsiccatae" (1900).[3]
The standard author abbreviation Kneuck. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References

  1. ^ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  2. ^ [1] Plants jstor.org
  3. ^ [2] Biodiversity Heritage Library
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Kneuck.


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