Heinrich Karl Beyrich
1796 births | 1834 deaths | german botanists | people from saxony-anhalt
Heinrich Karl Beyrich (March 22, 1796 - September 15, 1834) was a German botanist who was a native of Wernigerode.
He studied botany at the University of Göttingen, and in 1819 performed botanical excursions throughout northern and eastern Italy. In 1822-23 he went on a expedition to Brazil on behalf of the Prussian government to collect flora for the Neu-Schönberger Botanical Garden and Pfaueninsel. In September-1834, while on an expedition through North America, he became ill and died at Fort Gibson, located in the present-day state of Oklahoma.
He has numerous plant species named after him, including Centaurium beyrichii, also known as the "mountain pink", and Galeandra beyrichii (Beyrich's helmet orchid). Beyrich, Heinrich Karl
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