Karl August Otto Hoffmann
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Karl August Otto Hoffmann (1853-1909) was a German botanist and a high school teacher in Berlin
. Author of Sertum plantarum madagascariensium, the genus
Hoffmanniella
in the Asteraceae
family
was named after him.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. Author of Sertum plantarum madagascariensium, the genus
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...
Hoffmanniella
Hoffmanniella
Hoffmanniella is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family....
in the 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...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
was named after him.