Karlheinz Senghas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist and orchidologist
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Place of Birth: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Karlheinz Senghas
- Karlheinz Senghas (7 April 1928 – 4 February 2004) was a German botanist and orchidologist.
- He was a curator, scientific director, and academic director of the University of Heidelberg's Botanical Garden from 1960 until his retirement in 1993.
- He was also president of the Deutsche Orchideen-Gesellschaft in the 1970s and was the co-publisher and editor of several volumes of Die Orchideen, a continuation of the publication begun by Rudolf Schlechter. He described his first orchid species, Aerangis buchlohii in 1962.
- Over the years, he contributed more than 300 publications on orchids and established 17 new orchid genera and 388 species.
- Several genera and species are named in his honor, including the orchid genera Senghasia and Senghasiella and the species Coryanthes senghasiana. He died on 4 February 2004.
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