Heinrich Poselger (original) (raw)

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German botanist (1818–1883)

Heinrich Poselger (25 December 1818 – 4 October 1883) was a German botanist who specialized in studies of succulent plants.

From 1849 to 1851 he collected plants, especially cacti, along the U.S.-Mexico border, and in the process took part in the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. His collections of cacti were sent to the herbarium at Jena.[1] He was a resident of Berlin, where he maintained an impressive collection of succulents.[2]

Mammillaria poselgeri

He is the taxonomic authority of numerous species within the family Cactaceae,[3] and has a number of cacti species bearing his name, a few examples being Coryphantha poselgeriana, Echinocereus poselgeri and Mammillaria poselgeri.[1]

• Reise nach Mexico in den Jahren, (1849).
• Beitrag zur Kakteenkunde. in "Allgemeine Gartenzeitung", (1853).[4]
• Hundert Jahre der St. Johannis-Loge zum Widder (in Berlin) von 1777 bis 1877, (1877).[5]
• "Heinrich Poselger: cactus articles in Allgemeine Gartenzeitung 1853-1855" (with Christoph Friedrich Otto and Albert Gottfried Dietrich); Cactusville Press.[6]

1. ^ a b Poselger, Heinrich (1818-1883) @ JSTOR Global Plants
2. ^ Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
3. ^ IPNI List of cacti described & co-described by Poselger.
4. ^ Google Books Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde, Volumes 4-6
5. ^ Google Search publications
6. ^ WorldCat Title Heinrich Poselger : cactus articles in Allgemeine Gartenzeitung 1853-1855
7. ^ International Plant Names Index. Poselg.