Georg Kükenthal

Georg Kükenthal (30 March 1864 – 20 October 1955) was a German pastor and botanist who specialized in the field of caricology.

He worked as a pastor in Grub am Forst, and later in Coburg. In 1913 he received an honorary degree from the University of Breslau.

Kükenthal was a leading authority on sedges. In his 1909 monograph, he divided the genus Carex into four subgenera: Primocarex, Vignea, Indocarex and Eucarex. Carex is the largest monophylletic (natural) genus of flowering plants; Kükenthal's monograph remains the only comprehensive, worldwide treatment.

Selected publications

• Cyperaceae-Caricoideae, etc, in Adolf Engler's "Das Pflanzenreich" (1909)
• Beiträge zur Flora von Coburg und Umgebung (1930)
• Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae, etc, in "Das Pflanzenreich" (1936)

References

• Collectors of lichens and lichenicolous fungi of Germany (biographical information)
• Systematics of the Genus Carex by Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi· 5 May 2003

1. "Author Query for 'Kük.'". International Plant Names Index.