Friedrich Alexander Buhse
Baltic-German botanist (1821–1898)
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Friedrich Alexander Buhse (30 November 1821, Riga – 29 December 1898) was a Baltic-German botanist.
From 1840 he studied botany at the universities of Dorpat, Berlin and Heidelberg, receiving his PhD in 1843.[1] In 1847–49, with Pierre Edmond Boissier, he collected plants in Transcaucasia and Persia.[2] In 1852 he became a correspondent member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.[3]
With Boissier he circumscribed many species of plants.[4] The botanical genus Buhsia (family Capparaceae) was named in his honor by Alexander Bunge.[2]
Selected works
- Ueber den Fruchtkörper der Flechten (Lichines), 1846 – On the fruiting bodies of lichens.
- Bergreise von Gilan nach Asterabad, 1849 – Mountain travels in Gilan near Asterabad.
- Nachrichten über drei pharmacologischwichtige Pflanzen und über die grosse Salzwüste in Persien, 1850 – On three important pharmacological plants and the large salt desert in Persia.
- Aufzählung der auf einer Reise durch Transkaukasien und Persien gesammelten Pflanzen, (with Pierre Edmond Boissier), 1860 – List of plants collected on the journey through Transcaucasia and Persia.
- Liste der Gefässpflanzen des Alburs und der Kapischen Südküste, 1899 – List of vascular plants of Alborz and the Caspian southern coast.
- Die flora des Alburs und der Kaspischen Südküste (with C. Winkler), 1899 – The flora of Alborz and the Caspian southern coast.[5]