Käthe Hoffmann
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Käthe Hoffmann was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 botanist who discovered and catalogued many plant species in New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

 and South East Asia including Annesijoa novoguineensis
Annesijoa novoguineensis
Annesijoa novoguineensis is a plant species of the family Euphorbiaceae and the sole species of the genus Annesijoa. It is uniquely found in New Guinea....

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