Otto Degener

Otto Degener (1899–1988) was a botanist and conservationist who specialized in identifying plants of the Hawaiian Islands.

Life

Otto Degener was born May 13, 1899 in East Orange, New Jersey. Degener started his Flora Hawaiiensis in 1932, the first book on Hawaiian plants published since that of William Hillebrand in 1888. He collected over 36,000 different species and preserved some 900 threatened and endangered plants.^[1]

The tree Degeneria vitiensis, which he discovered in Fiji in 1942, is named after him. He died January 16, 1988 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The standard author abbreviation O.Deg. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

References

^ "Biographical Note". Archives and Manuscript Collections. New York Botanical Garden. January 2000. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
^ International Plant Names Index. O.Deg.

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[1] "Biographical Note". Archives and Manuscript Collections. New York Botanical Garden. January 2000. Retrieved July 18, 2010.

[2] International Plant Names Index. O.Deg.

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