Gert Cornelius Nel

Gert Cornelius Nel (born April 6, 1885 in Greytown , Natal , † February 16, 1950 in Stellenbosch ) was a South African botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Nel ".

Live and act

Gert Cornelius Nel defended his dissertation on February 11, 1914 in Berlin under Adolf Engler and Gottlieb Haberlandt . With special consideration of the African plant species, he dealt with the plant families of the Amaryllis family and Hypoxidaceae . He provided numerous first descriptions of species from the genera Forbesia , Janthe , Hypoxis and Rhodohypoxis .

From 1921 to 1950 he was professor of botany at the University of Stellenbosch . Adolar Gottlieb Julius Herre (1895–1979), curator of the university, aroused his interest in succulent plants.

In 1946, Nel published the first book on the plant genus Lithops .

Honor taxon

Gustav Schwantes named in his honor the genre Nelia from the plant family of aizoaceae (Aizoaceae).

Numerous succulent plant species are also named after him, including:

• Braunsia nelii
• Conophytum nelianum
• Euphorbia nelii
• Gasteria neliana
• Gibbaeum nelii
• Glottiphyllum nelii
• Hereroa nelii
• Herrea nelii
• Stapelia neliana

Works

• Studies of the Amaryllidaceae-Hypoxideae, with particular reference to the African species . In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Leipzig, 1914
• Junior Sertifikaat biologie , Cape Town, 1938 - with CS Grobbelaar
• Senior Sertifikaat biologie , Cape Town, 1938 - with CS Grobbelaar
• Genera et species fungorum ex herb. PA van der Byl, Stellenbosch . Cape Town, 1941
• Species novae vel minus cognitiae: Lithops et Caralluma . Cape Town, 1943
• Lithops . 1946
• The Gibbaeum Handbook . 1953 - Edited by Jordaan and Shurley

literature

• WJ de Kock, DW Krüger, CJ Beyers (Editor): Dictionary of South African Biography . Pretoria, 1968-1987. - Volume IV

swell

• Gordon Douglas Rowley : A History of Succulent Plants . Strawberry Press, Mill Valley CA 1997, ISBN 0-912647-16-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nelia Schwantes gen. Nov. In: Möllers Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung . 43rd volume, p. 92, 1928
2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gert Cornelius Nel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Gert Cornelius Nel at the IPNI
• Scan of the work Lithops