Friedrich Alexander Buhse


Friedrich Alexander Buhse was a Baltic-German botanist.
From 1840 he studied botany at the universities of Dorpat, Berlin and Heidelberg, receiving his PhD in 1843. In 1847-49, with Pierre Edmond Boissier, he collected plants in Transcaucasia and Persia. In 1852 he became a correspondent member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.
With Boissier he circumscribed many species of plants. The botanical genus Buhsia was named in his honor by Alexander Bunge.

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