Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (24 September 1874 – 30 November 1945) was a German botanist.
Diels was born inHamburg, the son of the classical scholarHermann Alexander Diels. From 1900 to 1902 he traveled together withErnst Georg Pritzel throughSouth Africa,Java, Australia and New Zealand.[1][2]
Shortly before theFirst World War he travelledNew Guinea and in the 1930s inEcuador. Especially his collections of plants from Australia and Ecuador, which contained numerousholotypes, enriched the knowledge of the concerning floras. His monography on theDroseraceae from 1906 is still a standard.[citation needed]The majority of his collections were stored at thebotanical garden in Berlin-Dahlem, whose vicedirector he had been since 1913, becoming its director in 1921 until 1945. His collections were destroyed there during an air raid in 1943. He died in Berlin on 30 November 1945.[citation needed]
The standardauthor abbreviationDiels is used to indicate this person as the author whenciting abotanical name.[3]
Severalgenus of plants have been named after him including;Dielsantha (fromCampanulaceae family),Dielsia (fromRestionaceae),Dielsiocharis (fromBrassicaceae) andDielsiothamnus (fromAnnonaceae family).AlsoDielitzia (fromAsteraceae family), is named after Ludwig Diels andErnst Georg Pritzel (1875–1946).[4]
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