Hermann Harms
Botanist, Deceased Person
1870 – 1942
Who was Hermann Harms?
Hermann August Theodor Harms was a German taxonomist and botanist.
Harms worked as a botanist at the Botanical Museum in Berlin. He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
He was longtime editor of Adolf Engler's "Das Pflanzenreich". He was the author of several chapters on various plant families in Engler and Prantl's Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, including the chapter on Bromeliaceae.
In 1938 he revised the pitcher plant genus Nepenthes, dividing it into three subgenera: Anurosperma, Eunepenthes and Mesonepenthes. In addition, he was interested in the genus Passiflora.
The plant genus Harmsia from the family Malvaceae is named after him.
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