João Geraldo Kuhlmann

João Geraldo Kuhlmann (1882 Blumenau, Santa Catarina -1958 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian botanist.

Life

Kuhlmann was a specialist on taxonomy of angiosperms. He was a great collector of herborized material (his collection was gathered at a museum - Botanical Museum Kuhlmann, created in 1960, later the Botanical Museum of the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro opened to the public on September 20, 1991, incorporated this collection of the Kuhlmann Museum

Some works Kuhlmann, J. G. & A. J. Sampaio (1928): Clinostemon, novo Gênero de Lauráceas da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 4 (2):57-59. (Clinostemon, new genus of Lauraceae from Amazonia). Kuhlmann, J. G. Arquivos do Serviço Florestal 3: 4. 1950 (paper which he described the new family Peridiscaceae).

List of plant genera authored by João Geraldo Kuhlmann

Clinostemon Kuhlm. & Samp. syn. of Mezilaurus Kuntze ex Taub. Lauraceae Cyrillopsis Kuhlm. Linaceae or Ixonanthaceae Dialypetalanthus Kuhlm. Dialypetalanthaceae or Rubiaceae Didymocistus Kuhlm. Euphorbiaceae or Phyllanthaceae Duckeodendron Kuhlm. Solanaceae Goniodiscus Kuhlm. Celastraceae Hydrogaster Kuhlm. Tiliaceae or Grewioideae in Malvaceae sensu lato or Sparrmanniaceae Merianthera Kuhlm. Melastomataceae Paradrypetes Kuhlm. Picrodendraceae or Rhizophoraceae Paratecoma Kuhlm. Bignoniaceae Spheneria Kuhlm. Poaceae Sterigmapetalum Kuhlm. Rhizophoraceae