João Geraldo Kuhlmann

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João Geraldo Kuhlmann (1882 Blumenau ^[1], Santa Catarina -1958 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian botanist.

Kuhlmann was a specialist on Taxonomy of Angiosperms. He was a great collector of herborized material (his collection was gathered at a museum - Botanical Museum Kuhlmann, created in 1960, later the Botanical Museum of the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro opened to the public in September 20th, 1991, incorporated this collection of the Kuhlmann Museum ^[1]) and notable connoisseur of the Brazilian Flora, influencing a large number of researchers in this area of the knowledge in Brazil, for example William Rodrigues. He published about eighty works, describing new genera (see below), species and even Families (Peridiscaceae and Duckeodendraceae, probably synonym of Solanaceae, but this is doubtful.).

In 1944 he became the director of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, exerting this function up to 1951^[1].

J. G. Kuhlmann created the Botanical Society of Brazil ^[1].

The genera Kuhlmannia J.C.Gomes, synonym of Pleonotoma, Bignoniaceae and Kuhlmaniella Barroso, synonym of Dicranostyles, Convolvulaceae are named in his honour.

Some works

• (Portuguese) Kuhlmann, J. G. & A. J. Sampaio (1928): Clinostemon, novo Gênero de Lauráceas da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 4 (2):57-59. (Clinostemon, new genus of Lauraceae from Amazonia).
• (Portuguese) Kuhlmann, J. G. Arquivos do Serviço Florestal 3: 4. 1950 (paper which he described the new family Peridiscaceae).

List of plant genera authored by João Geraldo Kuhlmann

• Clinostemon Kuhlm. & Samp. syn. of Mezilaurus Kuntze ex Taub. Lauraceae
• Cyrillopsis Kuhlm. Linaceae or Ixonanthaceae
• Dialypetalanthus Kuhlm. Dialypetalanthaceae
• Didymocistus Kuhlm. Euphorbiaceae or Phyllanthaceae
• Duckeodendron Kuhlm. Duckeodendraceae
• Goniodiscus Kuhlm. Celastraceae
• Hydrogaster Kuhlm. Tiliaceae or Grewioideae in Malvaceae sensu lato or Sparrmanniaceae
• Merianthera Kuhlm. Melastomataceae
• Paradrypetes Kuhlm. Euphorbiaceae or Picrodendraceae
• Paratecoma Kuhlm. Bignoniaceae
• Spheneria Kuhlm. Gramineae
• Sterigmapetalum Kuhlm. Rhizophoraceae

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} The Botanical Museum of the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
2. ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4. 

• Rodriguésia v.9, n.18, p.71-78, 1945 [Homage of the publication]