Ralf Hand

Ralf Hand (born June 24, 1964 in Trier ) is a German botanist. Its botanical author abbreviation is " hand ".

Career

Hand is the son of the optician Rolf Hand. After completing school education up to high school in Trier, he began studying biology in Bonn in 1987 , which he completed in 1993 with the thesis The genus Hieracium L. in the Eifel and adjacent areas - studies on distribution, sociology and endangerment of the main and intermediate species . He wrote the dissertation revision of the species of Thalictrum subsectio Thalictrum (Ranunculaceae) occurring in Europe at the Free University of Berlin , Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem . He worked there until the end of 2018. His main area of work is the vascular plants of Central Europe and Cyprus. Of the latter, he was co-author of a checklist. He worked on the genus Thalictrum in the Hegi and Rothmaler .

Hand has been chairman of the Society for Research into Flora in Germany since 2017 .

Ralf Hand has (partly together with colleagues) so far (as of 2020) described over 50 new taxa (including recombinations).

Works

Hand published numerous botanical works, including:

Ralf Hand, Hans Reichert, Walter Bujnoch, Ulrich Kottke, Steffen Caspari (2016): Flora of the Trier region (2 volumes). 1st edition Weyand, Trier. ISBN 978-3-942429-29-0 .

literature

Matthias Breitfeld, Eduard Hertel, Angelika Baumann: The Florenwerke Germany - works and authors . In: Reports of the Bavarian Botanical Society . Special tape. 3. Edition. Munich 2020, p. 351 ( filesusr.com [PDF; 29.9 MB ; accessed on July 10, 2020] - download from www.bbgev.de/sonderbaende ).

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Author entry and list of the described plant names for Ralf Hand at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME	Hand, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	trier

[1] Author entry and list of the described plant names for Ralf Hand at the IPNI