Paul Falkenberg

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Paul Falkenberg (German: Paul Falkenberg; 1848 - 1925) - German botanist; Professor of botany and Director of Botanical Garden Rostock; renowed for, mainly, his works in anatomy and morphology of plants (“Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Vegetationsorgane der Monocotyledonen”, Stuttgart, 1876), also, on the algae. Falkenberg dedicated much on the study of the most extensive and most difficult group red algae Rhodomelaceae (“Rhodomelaceae” in Engler und Prantl's Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Leipzig., 1897).

The standard author abbreviation Falkenb. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

[edit] Works

Falkenberg, P. 1876: "Vergleichende Untersuchungen über den Bau der Vegetationsorgane der Monocotyledonen." Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart. pp. 220.
Falkenberg, P., 1881. Die Algen im weitesten Sinne. In: A. Schenk - Handbuch der Botanik. 23. Lieferung. pp. 159-302, 25 figs. Encyklopaedie der Naturwissenschaften. Erste Abtheilung. Band 2 (1882). Eduard Trewendt, Breslau. XI + 696 pp., 96 figs. [Characeen pp. 240-248, fig. 13]^[2]
Schmitz, Fr., and Falkenberg, P. (1897). Rhodomelaceae. In Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. 1(2). (Eds A. Engler and K.Prantl.) pp. 421–480.