Oskar Eberhard Ulbrich
Oskar Eberhard Ulbrich (17 September 1879 – 4 November 1952) was a German
mycologist
.
Ulbrich was born in
Botanical Museum in Berlin, where in 1938 he was appointed director of the Hauptpilzstelle.[1]
Known for his intrafamilial investigations of the botanical families
Chenopodiaceae and Caryophyllaceae, in 1934 he subdivided Chenopodiaceae into eight subfamilies; Salicornioideae, Polycnemoideae, Chenopodioideae, Salsoloideae, et al.[2][3]
In 1911 he introduced usage of a color scheme to indicate geographical regions on herbarium specimens and fascicles.[4] The plant genus
Selected publications
- Die höheren Pilze: Basidiomycetes, third edition 1928 (with Basidiomycetes.
- Pflanzenkunde, 1920.[6]
- Chenopodiaceae. - In: Adolf Engler & Karl Anton Eugen Prantl: Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, second edition. volume 16c: S.379-585, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1934.[7]
References
- ^ UZH - Zürcher Herbarien - Sammler Details Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine (biographical information)
- ^ American Journal of Botany[dead link] 84(2): 253–273. 1997
- ^ Flowering Plants. Dicotyledons: Magnoliid, Hamamelid and Caryophyllid Families edited by Klaus Kubitzki, Jens G. Rohwer, Volker Bittrich
- ^ Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ Google Books CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms ... by Umberto Quattrocchi
- ^ WorldCat Titles (publications)
- ^ Google Books Ökologische Forschung im globalen Kontext: Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag ... by Siegmar-Walter Breckle
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Ulbr.
External links
- IPNI (list of taxa described by Ulbrich)
- photo Cybertruffle.org (photo)