Elvira Gross

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Elvira Gross (born November 12, 1954 in Neckarsulm ; † August 25, 2005 in Eberbach am Neckar ) was a German botanist . Your botanical author's abbreviation is " E. Gross ".

Life

Elvira Angela Gross studied botany , zoology and geology at the University of Heidelberg from 1977 to 1983 and received her doctorate there in 1988 with the thesis "Morphology and anatomy of the Bromeliaceen seeds". Since 1984 she has been a research assistant to Werner Rauh at the Botanical Institute in Heidelberg after his retirement. In 1998 she moved to Wilhelm Barthlott at the Botanical Institute of the University of Bonn , now the Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants. She worked there until her death in 2005.

Act

Her main field of activity was the determination of bromeliads . She submitted numerous new descriptions. She accompanied the work of Werner Rauh and was significantly involved in the revision of the third edition of Rauh's "Bromelien". From 1984 to 2002 she was entrusted with the publication of the series of publications of the Academy of Sciences Mainz "Tropical-Subtropical Plant World". With Pierre Ibisch and later with Roberto Vásquez she explored the bromeliads of Bolivia. Plant books have been produced since 1992, which were designed for a larger audience and some of them have been translated into several languages. Your photos of alpine plants are stored in the historical alpine archive of the German Alpine Club in Munich .

Species named after Gross

Fonts (selection)

  • Elvira Gross: On the morphology of the Bromeliaceen seeds taking systematic-taxonomic aspects into account. In: Trop. subtropical. Plant world 64. Akad.Wiss.Lit., Mainz, F. Steiner Verlag 1988.
  • Werner Rauh (with the assistance of E. Gross): Bromeliads. Tillandsia and other bromeliads worthy of culture. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1990, 3rd edition. ISBN 3-8001-6371-3 .
  • Elvira Gross: Beautiful tillandsias. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-8001-6501-5 . 2nd edition 2001 ISBN 3-8001-3222-2 .
  • Elvira Gross: orchids. Flowers & garden, plant portrait. Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1993. ISBN 3-576-10298-1 . The same French edition.
  • Elvira Gross: Palms - select and care for them. Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich 1995. ISBN 3-7742-2666-0 . The same Portuguese, Hungarian and Russian editions.
  • Elvira Gross: Bromeliad Studies. I. New and little known species from Peru and other countries. 23rd communication. Trop. subtropical. Plant World 95. Akad.Wiss.Lit., Mainz, F. Steiner Verlag 1997.
  • Elvira Gross: Plant names and their meaning. 2nd Edition. Dumont, Cologne 2001. ISBN 3-8320-5557-6 .

Complete list of publications and their taxa in:

  • PL Ibisch, MD Rafiqpoor, W. Barthlott: A life for plants: In memory of Elvira Groß. In: Die Bromelie , Volume 3/2005, pp. 94-99.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PL Ibisch, MD Rafiqpoor, W. Barthlott: In Memoriam: Elvira Groß. In: Journal of the Bromeliad Society , Volume 55, No. 5, 2005, p. 236.
  2. ↑ Directory of their taxa in: PL Ibisch, MD Rafiqpoor, W. Barthlott: A life for plants: in memory of Elvira Groß. In: Die Bromelie , Volume 3/2005, pp. 94-96.
  3. ↑ DC Taylor, H. Robinson: Harvard Papers in Botany 4 (1): 203-217
  4. ↑ R. Vásquez, PL Ibisch: The Bromeliads of Bolivia (IV): Puya elviragrossiae (Bromeliaceae), a new species from the endemic dry valleys of Santa Cruz. In: Die Bromelie , Volume 2/2005, pp. 40-43.
personal data
SURNAME Gross, Elvira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Great, Elvira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Neckarsulm
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2005
Place of death Eberbach am Neckar