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Otto Degener (13 May 1899 in East Orange, New Jersey - 16 January 1988 in Honolulu, Hawai'i) was a botanist and conservationist, and is recognized as the authority of the flora of the Hawai'ian Islands.

Degener started his Flora Hawaiiensis in 1932, the first such flora published since 1888. He collected over 36,000 different species and preserved some 900 threatened and endangered plants.

The tree Degeneria vitiensis, which he discovered in Fiji in 1942, is named after him.

References

  1. ^ International Plant Names Index.  O.Deg.