Käthe Hoffmann

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Käthe Hoffmann (born 1883) was a German botanist who discovered and catalogued many plant species in New Guinea and South East Asia including Annesijoa novoguineensis. She was a professor at Breslau, German Empire, (now Wroclaw, Poland) and made a significant contribution to botany, authoring 354 land plant species names, the sixth-highest number of such names authored by any female scientist.[1] While some sources give her year of death as 1931, this is impossible as she was the author of two papers published in Revista Sudamericana de Botánica in 1942, one of them being an obituary of Ferdinand Albin Pax.[2]

Selected publications

Co-author

  • Pax, FA; K Hoffmann. 1911. Euphorbiaceae-Cluytieae. Das Pflanzenreich. Heft 47.
  • Pax, FA; K Hoffmann. 1922. Euphorbiaceae-Phyllanthoideae-Phyllantheae. Das Pflanzenreich. Heft 81.
  • Pax, FA; K Hoffmann. 1924. Euphorbiaceae-Crotonoideae-Acalypheae-Acalyphinae ... Euphorbiaceae-Additamentum VII. Das Pflanzenreich. Heft 85.
  • Pax, FA; K Hoffmann. Euphorbuaceae — Cluytieae. Ed. reimpreso Weinheim, J.C, 1959. 124 pp. 35 figs. Engler's pflanzenreich, IV: 147: III; Heft 47.
  • Pax, FA; K Hoffmann. 1958. Euphorbiaceae — Gelonieae. Mit 40 Einzelbildern in 11 Fig.
  • Pax, FA; K Hoffmann. 1912. Euphorbiaceae-Gelonieae ... . Unter Mitwirkung. Das Pflanzenreich. Heft 52.
  • Pax, FA; K Hoffmann. 1912. Euphorbiaceae-Acalypheae-Chrozophorinae ... Unter Mitwirkung. Das Pflanzenreich. Heft 57.
  • Pax, FA; K Hoffmann. 1914. Euphorbiaceae-Acalypheae-Mercurialinae ... Unter Mitwirkung. Das Pflanzenreich. Heft 63.

Author abbreviation

References

  1. ^ Lindon, Heather L.; Gardiner, Lauren M.; Brady, Abigail; Vorontsova, Maria S. (5 May 2015). "Fewer than three percent of land plant species named by women: Author gender over 260 years". Taxon. 64 (2): 209–215. doi:10.12705/642.4.
  2. ^ FA Stafleu and RS Cowan. Taxonomic Literature. volume 4. page120.[1]
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  K.Hoffm.