Pechuel-Loeschea
Encyclopedia
Pechuel-loeschea is a genus
of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae
, and named after the German plant collector and geographer Eduard Pechuël-Loesche
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
, and named after the German plant collector and geographer Eduard Pechuël-Loesche
Eduard Pechuël-Loesche
Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, , was a German naturalist, geographer, ethnologist, painter, traveler, author, plant collector and Professor of Geography in Jena and Erlangen...
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