Georg Kükenthal

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Georg Kükenthal (1864 - 1955) was a German pastor and botanist who specialized in the field of caricology.

He worked as a pastor in Grub am Forst, and later in Coburg. In 1913 he received an honorary degree from the University of Breslau.

Kükenthal was a leading authority on sedges. In his 1909 monograph, he divided the genus Carex into four subgenera: Primocarex, Vignea, Indocarex and Eucarex. Carex is the largest monophylletic (natural) genus of flowering plants; Kükenthal's monograph remains the only comprehensive, world-wide treatment.

Selected publications

Cyperaceae-Caricoideae, etc, in Adolf Engler's "Das Pflanzenreich" (1909)
Beiträge zur Flora von Coburg und Umgebung (1930)
Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae, etc, in "Das Pflanzenreich" (1936)

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

References

Collectors of lichens and lichenicolous fungi of Germany (biographical information)
Systematics of the Genus Carex by Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi· 5 May 2003

↑ [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Kük. "Author Query for 'Kük.'"]. International Plant Names Index.

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Name	Kukenthal, Georg
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Short description	German botanist
Date of birth	1864
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Date of death	1955
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