Ernst Georg Pritzel

Ernst Georg Pritzel
Born(1875-05-15)15 May 1875
Died6 April 1946(1946-04-06) (aged 70)
Berlin, Germany
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
phytogeography
taxonomy

Ernst Georg Pritzel (15 May 1875 – 6 April 1946) was a German botanist.

He is known for his research in the fields of phytogeography and taxonomy. He contributed works on Lycopodiaceae, Psilotaceae and Pittosporaceae to Engler & Prantl’s "Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien".[1]

In 1900–02, with Ludwig Diels, he collected plants in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. They published the results of their expedition (a collection of 5700 species) in the Botanische Jahrbücher in 1904–05. Their findings included 235 new species.[2] Pritzel issued and distributed the exsiccata-like specimen series Plantae Australiae occidentalis 1901–1902 editae.[3]

The fungi genus Pritzeliella was named after him by Paul Christoph Hennings in 1903[1] and Melaleuca pritzelii (originally Melaleuca densa var. pritzelii) by Karel Domin in 1923.[4]

  1. ^ a b Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, Australian National Herbarium (biography)
  2. ^ JSTOR Global Plants
  3. ^ "Plantae Australiae occidentalis 1901–1902 editae: IndExs ExsiccataID=565436928". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  4. ^ Brophy, Joseph J.; Craven, Lyndley A.; Doran, John C. "Melaleucas: their botany, essential oils and uses" (PDF). Australian centre for international agricultural research. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2015.