Jean-Louis Kralik

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Jean-Louis Kralik (* 1813 in Strasbourg , † 1892 in Tresserve ) was a French botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Kralik ".

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Kralik was a professor at the University of Strasbourg , then curator of the herbarium of Philip Barker Webb and from 1855 to 1885 of the herbarium of Ernest Saint-Charles Cosson (1819-1889). He also published a catalog of Alphonse Maille's herbarium .

He mainly collected plants in North Africa (Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia).

Honors

The sweet grass genera Kralikia Cosson & Durieu de Maisonneuve and Kralikella Coss. & Durieu were named in his honor.

Fonts

  • Catalog Des Reliquiae Mailleanae, 1869

Individual evidence

  1. Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

Web links

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