Famous Botanists & Supporters

Rudolf Schlechter German Botanist

The german botanist Rudolf Schlechter (1872-1925) was a specialist on Orchidaceae (orchids) and Asclepiadoideae

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Louis Marie Aubert Du Petit-Thouars French Botanist

Louis Marie Aubert Du Petit-Thouars (1758-1831) was a famous French botanist, who first described the Bulbophyllum orchid species.

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Gustav Kunze German Botanist

Gustav Kunze (1793-1851) was a german botanist and doctor. 1813 Kunze registered at the University of Leipzig, where he took a doctoral degree in medicine. Gustav Kunze had also a good reputation as a botanist and joined the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh in the year 1817. In the following years he became a Read More »

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Robert Allen Rolfe

Robert Allen Rolfe (1855–1921),
a british botanist specialised in Orchidaceae studies,
was the first curator of the Orchid Herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew…

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Henry Nicholas Ridley

Henry Nicholas Ridley (Ridl.), often called Mad Ridley or Rubber Ridley, described a vast number of orchids

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