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Albert Thellung

Albert Thellung

Swiss botanist (1881-1928)

"Thell." redirects here. For other uses, see Thell.

Albert Thellung (12 May 1881 – 26 June 1928) was a Swiss botanist.

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He was a professor at the University of Zürich. The Austrian botanist Otto Stapf named the plant genus Thellungia of the grass family, Poaceae, after him, and Otto Eugen Schulz named the genus Thellungiella (family Brassicaceae) in his honor.[1]

Thellung made contributions to the third (1909–14) and fourth (1923) editions of Schinz and Keller's Flora der Schweiz.[2]

Works

  • Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa 1906
  • Die Gattung Lepidium (L.) R. Br. : eine monographische Studie 1906
  • La flore adventice de Montpellier 1912
  • Flora der Schweiz - Kritische Flora, 1914
  • Flora der Schweiz - Exkursionsflora, 1923
  • Die Entstehung der Kulturpflanzen 1930
The standard author abbreviation Thell. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z by Umberto Quattrocchi
  2. [2]
    Biodiversity Heritage Library (publications)
  3. [3]
    International Plant Names Index.  Thell.


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