Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch

German botanist (1714–1786).

Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (5 February 1714, in Leipzig – 5 October 1786, in Berlin) was a German physician and botanist known for pioneer investigations of plant sexuality and reproduction.

Abbreviations: Gled.

Occupations: writer, university teacher, botanist

Citizenships: Margraviate of Brandenburg, Electorate of Saxony

Languages: Latin, German

Dates: 1714-02-05T00:00:00Z – 1786-10-05T00:00:00Z

Birth place: Leipzig

Direct attributions: 5 plants, 1 fungus

Authorship mentions: 6 plants, 1 fungus

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1 fungus attributed to1 fungus:

Stemonitis Gled. 1753

fungi genus in the stemonitaceae family

Stemonitis is a distinctive genus of slime moulds found throughout the world (except Antarctica). They are characterised by the tall brown sporangia, supported on slender stalks, which grow in clusters on rotting wood. The genus was first described by German botanist Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch in 1753. A 2014 estimate suggests that there are 18 species in the genus. Identification within the genus is difficult, and can only be performed with confidence using a microscope or by DNA sequencing. A fossil specimen (in Burmese amber) is known from the mid-Cretaceous (99 ma).

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