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Berthold Seemann

1825 – 1871

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Berthold Carl Seemann was a German botanist. He travelled widely and collected and described plants from the Pacific and South America. Along with his brother, he founded the German botanical periodical Bonplandia in 1853 and edited it for a decade before it became the Journal of Botany. The genus Seemannaralia is named after him.

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Date of birth
February 25, 1825
Date of death
October 10, 1871
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