Name Karl Rechinger Role Author | Parents Karl Rechinger Books Flora of Lowland Iraq | |
Died December 30, 1998, Vienna, Austria | ||
Karl Heinz Rechinger (16 October 1906, Vienna – 30 December 1998) was an Austrian botanist and phytogeographer. He was the son of botanist Karl Rechinger (1867-1952).
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Biography
He studied botany, geography and geology at the University of Vienna, and beginning in 1928, worked as a demonstrator under Richard Wettstein in Vienna's institute of botany. He was for almost 35 years the Director of the Department of Botany at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where from 1961 to 1971, he was the museum's Director.
He made important contributions involving flora native to Southwestern Asia and Greece, being recognized for his work on Flora Iranica and as the author of Flora Aegaea. As a taxonomist, he described many species of plants.
Rechinger was also a lecturer of botany at the University of Vienna, and in 1956–57 was a visiting professor in Baghdad, where he founded a herbarium. He was in 1971 elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Eponymy
The lichen genus Rechingeria, the fungi genus Rechingeriella, the plant taxa Androcymbium rechingeri, Carthamus rechingeri, Centaurea rechingeri, Erysimum rechingeri, Campanula rechingeri, Paronychia rechingeri, Euphorbia rechingeri, Onosma kaheirei, Trifolium rechingeri, Stipa rechingeri, Trisetum rechingeri and the Land snail Albinaria rechingeri are named in his honor. He also collected reptiles on his journeys, including two species and one subspecies that were named after him; Elaphe rechingeri (now treated as synonym of Elaphe quatuorlineata), Eirenis rechingeri and Podacris erhardii rechingeri.