4-576: Plantae preissianae sive enumeratio plantarum quas in australasia occidentali et meridionali-occidentali annis 1838-1841 collegit Ludovicus Preiss , more commonly known as Plantae preissianae , is a book written by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann and Ludwig Preiss . Written in Latin , it is composed of two volumes and was first published by Sumptibus Meissneri in Hamburg between 1844 and 1847. The two volumes were published in six separate parts. The books detail
8-844: The plants collected by Ludwig Preiss, James Drummond , Thomas Livingstone Mitchell and Johann Lhotsky in Western Australia . The books are regarded as one of the earliest and most important contributions to the study of the flora of Western Australia . Priess amassed a collection of over 2,700 species of plants while in Western Australia from 1838 to 1842 when he returned to Germany. As a result of Priess' samples and notes Lehmann and his team of botanists, Stephan Endlicher , Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck , Gustav Kunze , Carl Meissner , Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling , Johannes Conrad Schauer , Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel and Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel , were able to study and name
12-511: The plants in the next five years. Johann Georg Christian Lehmann Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (25 February 1792 – 12 February 1860) was a German botanist. Born at Haselau , near Uetersen , Holstein , Lehmann studied medicine in Copenhagen and Göttingen , obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1813 and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena in 1814. He spent
16-658: The rest of his life as professor of physics and natural sciences, and head librarian, at the Gymnasium Academicum in Hamburg . A prolific monographist of apparently quarrelsome character, he was a member of 26 learned societies and the founder of the Hamburg Botanical Garden ( Botanischer Garten Hamburg , now the Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg ). Lehmann died at Hamburg in 1860. Some of Lehmann's later illustrations were executed by
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