Hansjörg Eichler (1 April 1916 – 22 June 1992) was a German-born botanist, educated in Europe, who worked in Europe and Australia, and whose greatest contribution was to Australian botany.
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The standard
author abbreviation H.Eichler is used to indicate this person as the author when
citing a
botanical name .
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Hansjörg Eichler , the son of architect, Gustav Eichler, and painter, Anna Eichler (née Sellin), was born in Ravensburg in 1916.
[3] At the Ravensburg school, one of his teachers was
Karl Bertsch , a leading
Württemberg botanist, who stimulated his interest in botany and took him on private botanical excursions.
[3] In 1936, the family moved to
Berlin , and Eichler started working at the
Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem (as a volunteer) under the tutelage of
Friedrich Ludwig E Diels , at the same time having enrolled at the
University of Berlin , to study botany and chemistry.
[3] The work at the
Botanisches Museum ceased in 1943 when a bombing raid wrecked the museum.
[3] In 1944, he was exempted from war service to allow him to both study and work at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Kulturpflanzenforschung (now the
Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung ) in Vienna.
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After the war (1946–1949), he was able to continue his studies at the
University of Halle-Wittenberg , and, in 1950, received his
Doctorate in Natural Sciences for a thesis on floristic and phyto-oenological investigations into the
Hakel .
[3] He married Marie-Louise Möhring in 1953, and went to
Parma , and from there to the
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis in Leiden, to work on
Ranunculaceae .
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In 1955, he was appointed the first Keeper of the
State Herbarium of South Australia (1955–1972),
[4] and then curator of the
Herbarium Australiense (which later became the
Australian National Herbarium ), within the
CSIRO division of Plant Industry, a position held from 1973 until his retirement in 1981.
[4] In Canberra, he founded the journal,
Brunonia .
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In 1993 the
Australian Systematic Botany Society established the
Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund in his honour, and makes awards for projects contributing to Australian systematic botany.
[4] His personal herbarium of over 24, 000 specimens was divided between the
State Herbarium of South Australia and the
Australian National Herbarium .
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In addition to his contributions to botany in his roles at the
State Herbarium of South Australia and later at the
Australian National Herbarium , he contributed both nationally and internationally via service on many committees:
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Committee for Spermatophyta, International Association for Plant Taxonomy (1968–1992)
Committee for Nomina Conservanda, International Association for Plant Taxonomy (1975–1981)
Special committee for Orthography, International Association for Plant Taxonomy (1982–1987)
Editorial committee World Pollen and Spore Flora (1972–1975)
Advisory committee, Australian Journal of Botany (1972–1977)
Editorial committee, Index Holmensis (1974–1992)
Chair, editorial board,
Brunonia (1977–1982)
Editorial committee, Flora of Australia (1980–1985)
(1958) Revision der Ranunculaceen Malesiens. Stuttgart.
(Trove listing – book)
– & Black, J.M. (1965) Supplement to J.M. Black's Flora of South Australia. (2nd Edition, 1943–1957). W.L. Hawes.
(1963) Some New Names and New Combinations Relevant to the Australian Flora.
Taxon 12: 295–297.
doi :
10.2307/1216578
Benl, G, & – (1982) Ptilotus pedleyanus , a new species of Amaranthaceae from Queensland. Brunonia 4(2): 199–207.
doi :
10.1071/BRU9810199
APNI gives some 91 published names.
[7] IPNI (with duplication) lists 152.
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Published names given by APNI (Australian Plant Name Index)
Actinobole uliginosum (A.Gray) H.Eichler
Agrostis spicatus H.Eichler, orth. var.
Amyema miraculosa var. boormanii (Blakely) H.Eichler
Amyema miraculosa (Miq.) Tiegh. var. miraculosa
Aristida contorta var. hirsuta (Henrard) H.Eichler
Asparagus medeloides H.Eichler, orth. var.
Atriplex acutibracta H.Eichler, orth. var.
Atriplex acutibracta subsp. acutibracta H.Eichler, orth. var.
Atriplex acutibracta subsp. karonensis H.Eichler, orth. var.
Atriplex cinerea var. adscendens (Nees) H.Eichler
Atriplex leptocarpa f. inermis H.Eichler, nom. inval., nom. nud.
Atriplex macropterocarpa (Aellen) H.Eichler
Bulbinopsis semibarbata var. depilata (J.M.Black) H.Eichler
Calandrinia neesiana H.Eichler
Callistemon macropunctatus var. laevifolius (F.Muell. ex Miq.) H.Eichler
Centaurium littoralis H.Eichler, orth. var.
Clematis leptophylla (F.Muell. ex Benth.) H.Eichler
Datura meteleoides H.Eichler, orth. var.
Diplotaxis muralis var. caulescens H.Eichler, orth. var.
Eucalyptus brachycalyx var. protrusa (J.M.Black) H.Eichler
Eucalyptus clelandii H.Eichler, orth. var.
Evax pygmea H.Eichler, orth. var.
Exocarpos strictus var. syrticolus H.Eichler, orth. var.
Filago pygmea H.Eichler, orth. var.
Gasoul aitonis (Jacq.) H.Eichler
Glochidion hirtellus (F.Muell.) H.Eichler
Glochidion rhytidospermum (Müll.Arg.) H.Eichler
Glochidion rigens (F.Muell.) H.Eichler
Glochidion thesioides H.Eichler
Glochidion trachyspermum (F.Muell.) H.Eichler
Gnephosis foliata (Sond.) H.Eichler
Hannafordia bissellii H.Eichler, orth. var.
Helichrysum lindleyi H.Eichler
Helichrysum monochaetum (F.Muell.) H.Eichler
Helixia H.Eichler orth. var.
Helixia setifolia H.Eichler, orth. var.
Homalosciadium homalocarpum (F.Muell.) H.Eichler
Hydrocotyle coorowensis H.Eichler MS
Hydrocotyle coraginaensis H.Eichler MS
Hydrocotyle crassipes H.Eichler MS
Hydrocotyle decipiens H.Eichler MS
Hydrocotyle foveolata H.Eichler
Hydrocotyle hamelinensis H.Eichler MS
Hydrocotyle sp. Harts Range (A.C.Beauglehole 44720) H.Eichler
Hydrocotyle hexaptera H.Eichler MS
Hydrocotyle puberula H.Eichler MS
Hydrocotyle vigintimilia H.Eichler MS
Hydrocotyle sp. Watarrka (A.C.Beauglehole 20471) H.Eichler
Indigofera dominii H.Eichler, nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
Lilaeopsis polyantha (Gand.) H.Eichler
Luzula rhadiana H.Eichler, orth. var.
Lysiana exocarpi (Behr) Tiegh. f. exocarpi
Lysiana exocarpi f. flavescens (F.Muell. ex Miq.) H.Eichler
Machaerina rubiginosa (Spreng.) H.Eichler, isonym
Machaerina tetragona H.Eichler, nom. inval.
Nymphoides crenatum H.Eichler, orth. var.
Nymphoides exiliflorum H.Eichler, orth. var.
Nymphoides geminatum H.Eichler, orth. var.
Nymphoides stygia (J.M.Black) H.Eichler
Nymphoides stygium H.Eichler, orth. var.
Pectinellia H.Eichler, orth. var.
Pectinellia griffithii H.Eichler, orth. var.
Phyllanthus hirtellus var. parviflorus (J.M.Black) H.Eichler
Platysace heterophylla var. tepperi (J.M.Black) H.Eichler
Platysace rupestris H.Eichler MS
Psychrophila phylloptera (A.W.Hill) H.Eichler
Ptilotus helipteroides var. minor (J.M.Black) H.Eichler
Ranunculus hamatosetosus H.Eichler
Ranunculus lourteigiae H.Eichler
Ranunculus pentandrus var. platycarpus (F.Muell.) H.Eichler
Salicornia australasica (Moq.) H.Eichler
Sarojusticia kempeana (F.Muell.) Bremek. ex H.Eichler
Sarojusticia kempeana (F.Muell.) Bremek. ex H.Eichler subsp. kempeana
Solanum symonii H.Eichler
Swainsona sericea (A.T.Lee) J.M.Black ex H.Eichler
Tetragonia amplexicoma H.Eichler, orth. var.
Trachymene ornata var. semilanata (J.M.Black) H.Eichler
Trianthema chrystallina H.Eichler, orth. var.
Trianthema triquetra var. clavata H.Eichler, orth. var.
Trianthema triquetrum var. clavatum (J.M.Black) H.Eichler
Tribulopis affinis (W.Fitzg.) H.Eichler
Tribulopis sessilis (Domin) H.Eichler
Wahlenbergia fluminale E.Wimm. ex H.Eichler, orth. var.
Wahlenbergia fluminalis (J.M.Black) E.Wimm. ex H.Eichler
Zaleya galericulata (Melville) H.Eichler
Zygophyllum angustifolium H.Eichler
Zygophyllum aurantiacum var. eremaeum (Diels) H.Eichler
Zygophyllum confluens H.Eichler
Zygophyllum emarginatum H.Eichler
Zygophyllum simile H.Eichler
Zygophyllum sonderi H.Eichler
Some plants named for him
Taxa named by Hansjörg Eichler
Conn, B.J. (1981) 'Dr Hans-Jörg Eichler, on the occasion of his retirement', Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, vol. 26, pp. 18–43.
Orchard, A. E. (1995) 'Hansjörg Eichler (1916–1992)', Taxon, vol. 44, pp. 271–8.
Orchard, Tony (2015) 'Memories of Hansjörg Eichler', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, vol. 165, pp. 49–53.
Robertson, Enid L. (1993) 'Hansjörg Eichler 1 April 1916 – 22 June 1992', Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, vol. 15, no. 81–5.
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