Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth (13 March 1792 in Breitenstein, Saxony-Anhalt – 22 March 1857 in Nordhausen) was a German botanist. His name is abbreviated Wallr. as a taxon authority.[1]

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth
Born(1793-03-13)March 13, 1793
Breitenstein, Saxony-Anhalt, Holy Roman Empire
DiedMarch 22, 1857(1857-03-22) (aged 64)
Nordhausen, Thuringia, Kingdom of Prussia
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

He attended classes in medicine and botany at the University of Halle, afterwards continuing his studies in Göttingen, where he was a pupil of botanist Heinrich Adolf Schrader (1767-1836). In 1816 he obtained his medical doctorate at the University of Göttingen. In 1822 he was appointed district physician to the city of Nordhausen, where along with his duties as a doctor, he performed botanical research.[2]

Among his writings were a treatise on cryptogams native to Germany, Flora Cryptogamica Germaniae (1831–33), and a study on the biology of lichens, titled Naturgeschichte der Flechten (1825 and 1827). Wallroth is credited for introducing the terms "homoiomerous" and "heteromerous" to explain two distinct forms of lichen thallus,[3][4] as well as the terms "epiphloeodal", "hypophloeodal", and gonidium.[5]

See also
  • Category:Taxa named by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth

References
  1. "Wallroth, Carl (Karl) Friedrich Wilhelm (1792-1857)". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  2. Biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  3. SCHLECHTENDALIA 23 Lichenology in Germany: past, present and future
  4. Lichens by Annie Lorrain Smith
  5. Mitchell, M.E. (2014). "De Bary's legacy: the emergence of differing perspectives on lichen symbiosis" (PDF). Huntia. 15 (1): 5–22 [13].
  6. International Plant Names Index.  Wallr.


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