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Life Dates 1837 - 1890

Biography Austrian military officer and botanist. Victor von Janka was born in Vienna and worked as the officer of a Cuirassier regiment (armoured cavalry soldiers) for the Imperial Austrian army until 1870. He was then named curator of the botanical department of the Budapest National Museum. He ceased working for the museum in 1889 and died one year later in the same city. Janka collected many specimens throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his types are housed in the herbarium of the Babes-Bolyai University in Romania (CL).

Sources: Anon, 1890, "Personalnachrichten", Botanische Zeitung, 48: 630 F.A. Stafleu and R.S. Cowan, 1976-1998, Taxonomic Literature, 2nd edition (TL-2) Z. Theil, 1865, Linnaea, 33: 633-635 Index Collectorum, University of Gottingen: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/187061.html, accessed 10 November 2010. References Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 301; Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 312; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 57; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 35;

Österreichische botanische Zeitschrift January 1865, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp 1-5 Victor von Janka August Neilreich

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Sommige publicaties 1858. Zur Oostenrijkse flora. 4 pp. 1884. Genisteae Europaeae 1884. Hedysareae Europaeae 1884. Astragaleæ Europaeae 1884. Trifolieae & amp; Loteae Europaeae Florae 1885. Leguminosae Europaeae analytice elaboratæ. 4 pp. Boeken 1872. Plantarum Novarum turcicarum breviarium 1874. adatok Magyarhon délkeleti florájához, dr tekintettel. Borbás Vincze jelentésére: "Az 1873-ik évben om Bánság területén Tett növénytani kutatásokrol 1886. Amaryllideae, Dioscoreae et Liliaceae Europaeae analytice elaboratae. Természetrajzi Füzetek 10 Honors We eponyms Jancaea Achillea jankae Centaurea jankae Hieracium jankae Hieracium jankae subsp. penzesii Eritrichium jankae Noccaea jankae Jasione jankae Arenaria jankae Hypericum jankae Colchicum jankae lilium jankae Carex jankae Cytisus jankae Gentiana jankae Origanum jankae Utricularia australis (synonym of Utricularia jankae Velen. (1886)) Koeleria jankae Ujhelyi (synonym of Koeleria macrantha) Himantoglossum jankae Habronestes jankae Baehr, 2008 Chamaecytisus jankae (Velen.) Rothm.

Colchicum hungaricum Janka (flower of hungary)

Iris mellita: (Victor von Janka, 1876), in Mathematikai és Természettudományi Közlemémyek. Pest [= Budapest in part] 12: 172. 1876. See Iris suaveolens