Christoph Friedrich Otto
Christoph Friedrich Otto (4 December 1783 – 7 December 1856) was a German
botanist.[1]
He was born in
Botanical Garden in Berlin. Together with Albert Gottfried Dietrich (1795–1856), he edited the Allgemeinen Gartenzeitung from 1833 until his death in 1856 in Berlin
.
The genus of plants Cactaceae.[3]
Published works
- Abbildung der fremden in Deutschland ausdauernden Holzarten, 1819–1830 (with Friedrich Guimpel and Friedrich Gottlob Hayne).
- Abbildungen auserlesener Gewächse des königlichen botanischen Gartens, 1820–1828 (with Heinrich Friedrich Link) - Illustrations of plants from the royal botanical gardens.
- Abbildungen neuer und seltener Gewächse …, 1828–1831 (with Heinrich Friedrich Link) - Illustrations of new and rare plants.
- Abbildung und Beschreibung blühender Cacteen, 1838–1850 (with Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer) - Illustrations and descriptions of blooming cacti.
- "Icones plantarum rariorum horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis" - (Illustrations of rare plants of the royal botanical gardens), 1840–1844 (with Heinrich Friedrich Link and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch).[4]
References
- ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
- ^ "Ottoa Kunth | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ IPNI List of plants described & co-described by Otto.
- ^ Hathitrust Icones plantarum rariorum horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Otto.
- List of published works copied from text of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.