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Carolus Adrianus Johannes Kreutz

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Nationality
  
Dutch

Author abbrev. (botany)
  
Kreutz


Name
  
Carolus Johannes

Fields
  
Botany, Taxonomy

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Carolus Adrianus Johannes "Karel" Kreutz (born 1954) is a Dutch orchidologist, botanical writer and taxonomist, currently affiliated with the Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis in Leiden, Netherlands. He is regarded as an exceptionally experienced orchidologist, and has published orchid floras of Cyprus, Turkey, Rhodes, Netherlands and Germany, and is currently preparing a major overview in ten volumes of all Orchid taxa in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, employing modern taxonomy, nomenclature and research techniques.

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Kreutz has published over 200 scientific papers, and is the scientific authority for over four hundred plant taxa, predominantly in the Orchidaceae, but also in the genus Orobanche.

Honours

The following orchid species have been named in recognition of Kreutz' work on the Orchidaceae:

  • (Orchidaceae) Ophrys kreutzii W.Hahn, R.Wegener & J.Mast
  • (Orchidaceae) Ophrys × kreutziana P.Delforge

    • Publications

  • Kreutz, C.A.J. (1987). De verspreiding van de inheemse orchideeën in Nederland. Zutphen : Thieme. ISBN 9003901619. 
  • Kreutz, C.A.J. (1992). Orchideeën in Zuid-Limburg. KNNV. ISBN 9050110290. 
  • Kreutz, C.A.J. (1995). OROBANCHE: Die Sommerwurzarten Europas / The European broomrape species. Meijs Publishers. ISBN 9074508057. 
  • Kreutz, C.A.J. (1998). Die Orchideen der Türkei. Kreutz & Seckel. ISBN 90-9011307-X. 
  • Kreutz, C.A.J. (2002). The Orchids of Rhodes and Karpathos. Reulte & Landgraaf, Netherlands: Seckel & Kreutz. ISBN 90 805149 2 6. Retrieved 17 October 2015. 
  • Kreutz, C.A.J. (2004). Kompendium der Europäischen Orchideen / Catalogue of European Orchids. Kreutz Publishers, Landgraaf. ISBN 90-806626-4-X. 
  • Kreutz, C.A.J. (2004). Die Orchideen von Zypern / The Orchids of Cyprus. ISBN 9080662631. 

    • References

    Carolus Adrianus Johannes Kreutz Wikipedia
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