Herbert Huber (botanist)

Herbert Franz Josef Huber (born January 1, 1931 , † October 1, 2005 ) was a German botanist . When he died in 2005 he was professor emeritus for botany at the University of Kaiserslautern . He became known for his contributions to the systematics of angiosperms (flowering plants). His botanical author's abbreviation is " H.Huber ".

Life path

Huber grew up as the son of a biology lecturer at the theological-philosophical college in Dillingen . He studied with Hermann Merxmüller in Munich and wrote his doctoral thesis in 1958 on the species-rich genus Ceropegia (candlestick flowers). After completing his doctorate, he became a curator at the Botanical Garden of the University of Würzburg ; then he took over the professorship for botany at the University of Mérida (Venezuela) . After his return to Germany he was first head of the herbarium in Hamburg until he was appointed professor of botany at the University of Kaiserslautern , where he worked until his retirement.

Work

Huber was one of the first scientists to question the traditional division of angiosperms into monocotyledons and dicotyledons (dicotyledons) for morphological reasons . He was also among the first systematists to propose to split the very extensive taxon of Liliiflorae . Initially, his contributions did not achieve a great response, although the fact that he wrote mainly in German and published in the communications of the Botanical State Collection in Munich contributed to this .

In Munich, he also published his first important work, Die Samenmerkmale und Kinships der Liliiflorae (1969), a detailed study of the taxon, in which he proposed its division into the 'Asparagoids' Liliiflorae and the 'Colchicoids' Lilliiflorae. When Dahlgren, Clifford, and Yeo completed their study of the monocot families (1985), they developed Huber's concept further while popularizing it by introducing the asparagales as a new order of the plant kingdom. Of similar importance are Huber's other works that deal with the systematics of the dicotyledons ( Magnoliales , Eudicotyledons ) and their seed anatomy, including in the extensive plant family of the Annonaceae (Annonaceae), as well as with the rosiflorae in the sense of Dahlgren. Huber initiated interdisciplinary chemosystematic investigations within the eudicotyledons.

Honor

The Hubera genus of the Annonaceae was named after Huber because Huber (1985) had already distinguished this group from the two neighboring groups purely on the basis of morphological features.

Selected publications

• H. Huber. (1955) Ceropegia humbertii Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. Munich, volume 12: 72 [1] .
• Herbert FJ Huber: Revision of the genus Ceropegia. In: Memórias da Sociedade Broteriana. Volume 12, Coimbra, 1957, pp. 1-203 [2] .
• Huber, H. (1985) Annonaceae, pp. 1-75. In: Dassanayake, MD & Fosberg, FR (eds.), A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon , 5. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi, 476 pages.
• H. Huber : The seed characteristics and relationships of the Liliiflorae . In: Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. [Communications from the Botanical State Collection, Munich] . 8, 1969, pp. 219-538. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
• H. Huber : The treatment of monocotyledons in an evolutionary system of classification . In: Plant Systematics and Evolution, Supplement . 1, 1977, pp. 285-298. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-7091-7076-2_18 .
• K. Kubitzki, H. Huber, PJ Rudall, PS Stevens, T. Stützel: The families and genera of vascular plants. Vol.3 . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany 1998, ISBN 3-540-64060-6 (accessed January 14, 2014).

References and bibliography

1. ↑ Huber, Herbert Franz Josef . Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Klaus Kubitzki: Herbert Huber (1 Jan 1931–1 Oct 2005) . In: Taxon . 55, No. 1, February 2006, p. 239.
3. ↑ RM Dahlgren , HT Clifford, PF Yeo: The families of the monocotyledons . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1985, ISBN 978-3-642-64903-5 (accessed February 10, 2014).
4. ↑ T. Stuhlfauth, H. Fock, H. Huber, K. Klug :: The distribution of fatty acids including petroselinic and tariric acids in the fruit and seed oils of the Pittosporaceae, Araliaceae, Umbelliferae, Simarubaceae and Rutaceae . In: Biochemical Systematics and Ecology . 13, 1985, pp. 447-453. doi : 10.1016 / 0305-1978 (85) 90091-2 .
5. ↑ Beate Breuer, Thomas Stuhlfauth, Heinrich Fock, Herbert Huber :: Fatty acids of some cornaceae, hydrangeaceae, aquifoliaceae, hamamelidaceae and styracaceae . In: Phytochemistry . 26, 1987, pp. 1441-1445. doi : 10.1016 / S0031-9422 (00) 81830-0 .
6. ↑ Tanawat Chaowasku, David M. Johnson, Raymond WJM Van Der Ham, Lars W. Chatrou :: Characterization of Hubera (Annonaceae), a new genus segregated from Polyalthia and allied to Miliusa . In: Phytotaxa . 69, 2012, pp. 33-56. Retrieved April 14, 2015.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Herbert Huber (botanist) at the IPNI