Franz_Georg_Philipp_Buchenau

Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau

Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau

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"Buchenau" redirects here. For his fourth child, Carl Ludwig Siegfried Buchenau (1870–1932), see Siegfried Buchenau. For the district of Eiterfeld, see Buchenau (Eiterfeld). For the castle situated therein, see Schloss Buchenau. For the Ortsteil in Boppard, see Boppard § Buchenau. For other uses, see de:Buchenau.

Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau (12 January 1831 – 23 April 1906) was a German botanist and phytogeographer who was a native of Kassel. He specialized in flora of northwestern Germany.

Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau

He studied at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen, and from 1855 was a schoolteacher in Bremen. In 1864 he was co-founder of the association for natural sciences in Bremen.

Buchenau was the author of works involving the regional flora of the East Frisian Islands, Flora der Ostfriesischen Inseln, and of Bremen/Oldenburg, Flora von Bremen und Oldenburg. He also published a comprehensive monograph on the botanical family Juncaceae, titled Monographia Juncacearum.

The standard author abbreviation Buchenau is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

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    International Plant Names Index.  Buchenau.
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