Urs Eggli

Urs Eggli with the Cactus d'Or

Urs Eggli (born February 11, 1959 near Zurich ) is a Swiss botanist and non-fiction author . He has been working as a research assistant at the Zurich Succulents Collection , a department of Grün Stadt Zürich , since 1986 . Urs Eggli is a specialist in cacti and other succulents .

Life

Urs Eggli graduated from school in 1978 and then studied biology with a focus on systematic botany at the University of Zurich . In 1983 he finished his studies with his master 's on The stomata of the Cactaceae . From 1983 to 1987 he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Zurich under the direction of Karl Urs Kramer. The work A monographic study of the genus Rosularia (Crassulaceae) was published as a supplement to volume 6 (1988) of Bradleya , the yearbook of the British Cactus and Succulent Society. Since 1986 he has been employed as a research assistant at the Zurich Succulent Collection . He was in charge of the Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants series (published 2001–2003). Since 1984 he has been editor of the annual Repertorium Plantarum Succulentarum published by the International Organization for Succulent Research (IOS).

Urs Eggli writes and wrote numerous articles for magazines on the subject of succulents, especially on systematics and nomenclature . He is active in field research in Argentina , Brazil , Chile and Uruguay . He is particularly interested in the diversity of succulents and their evolution .

Honors

Urs Eggli was made a Fellow of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America in 2007. In 2014, the International Organization for Succulent Research (IOS) nominated him for the Cactus d'Or awarded by the Principality of Monaco , which he received at the Jardin Exotique de Monaco in early June 2015 .

Fonts (selection)

As a book author

• A Type Specimen Register of Cactaceae in Swiss Herbaria . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-515-05043-4 .
• A monographic study of the genus Rosularia. (Crassulaceae) . Bradleya supplement . Volume 6, 1988, ISBN 0-902099-16-7 .
• Succulents . 1st edition, Ulmer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8001-6512-0 (2nd edition published in 2008).
• Cactaceae of South America. The Ritter collections . Directorate of the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin-Dahlem 1995, ISBN 3-921800-40-4 . - with Mélica Muñoz-Schick and Beat Ernst Leuenberger
• The CITES checklist of succulent euphorbia taxy (Euphorbiaceae) . 1st edition, Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-89624-609-7 . - with Susan Carter
• Etymological dictionary of succulent plant names . 1st edition, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 . - with Leonard Eric Newton

As an article author

• Living under temporarily arid conditions - succulence as an adaptive strategy . In: Bradleya . Volume 27, 2009, pp. 13–36 (with Reto Nyffeler)
• Disintegrating Portulacaceae: A new familial classification of the suborder Portulacineae (Caryophyllales) based on molecular and morphological data. In: Taxon . Volume 59, number 1, 2010, pp. 227-240 (with Reto Nyffeler).
• An up-to-date familial and suprafamilial classification of succulent plants . In: Bradleya . Volume 28, 2010, pp. 125-144 (with Reto Nyffeler).
• A farewell to dated ideas and concepts: molecular phylogenetics and a revised supplementary classification of the family Cactaceae . In: Schumannia . Volume 6, 2010, pp. 109–149 (with Reto Nyffeler; online ).

As editor

• Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 .
• Succulent lexicon. Dicotyledons (dicotyledons) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 .
• Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 .

As a translator and editor

• Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 1st edition, Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 (2nd edition published 2011).

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Urs Eggli at the IPNI
• Biographical brief ( Memento of March 21, 2012 on the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America
• Entry on the Zurich Herbaria website
• Awarded the Cactus d'Or on June 6, 2015