Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck

German botanist, embryologist and natural philosopher (1776-1858).

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (14 February 1776 – 16 March 1858) was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species (almost as many as Linnaeus himself). His last official act as president of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina was to admit Charles Darwin as a member. He was the author of numerous monographs on botany and zoology and majority of his best-known works deal with fungi. The standard author abbreviati

Abbreviations: Nees
Occupations: zoologist, university teacher, pteridologist, physician, mycologist, entomologist, bryologist, botanist, botanical collector, scientific collector, agrostologist
Citizenships: Grand Duchy of Hesse, Electoral Palatinate
Languages: Latin, German
Dates: 1776-02-14T00:00:00Z – 1858-03-16T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Schloss Reichenberg
Direct attributions: 1,269 plants, 51 fungi
Authorship mentions: 2,585 plants, 102 fungi

1,269 plants attributed, 1,316 plants contributed to2,585 plants:

Andrographis paniculata (Green Chirayta) (Burm.f.) Wall. ex Nees 1832
annual and medicinal plant species in the acanthaceae family
Andrographis paniculata, commonly known as creat or green chiretta, is an annual herbaceous plant in the family Acanthaceae, native to India and Sri Lanka. It is widely cultivated in Southern and Southeastern Asia, where it has been believed to be a treatment for bacterial infections and some diseases. Mostly the leaves and roots have been used for such purposes; the whole plant is also used, in some cases.
Salvia splendens (Scarlet Sage) Sellow ex Nees 1821
annual and medicinal plant species in the lamiaceae family
Salvia splendens, the scarlet sage, is a tender herbaceous perennial plant native to Brazil, growing at 2,000 to 3,000 m (6,600 to 9,800 ft) elevation where it is warm year-round and with high humidity. The wild form, rarely seen in cultivation, reaches 1.3 m (4.3 ft) tall. Smaller cultivars are very popular as bedding plants, seen in shopping malls and public gardens all over the world.
Callistephus chinensis (China-aster) (L.) Nees 1832
annual and medicinal plant species in the asteraceae family
Callistephus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae, containing the single species Callistephus chinensis. Its common names include China aster and annual aster. It is native to China and Korea. and it is cultivated worldwide as an ornamental plant in cottage gardens and as a cut flower.
Pachystachys lutea (Lollipop-plant) Nees 1847
plant species in the acanthaceae family
Pachystachys lutea, known as the golden shrimp plant or lollipop plant, is a tropical, soft-stemmed evergreen shrub between 0.5 and 2.5 meters tall, native to Peru. The zygomorphic, long-throated, short-lived white flowers emerge sequentially from overlapping bright yellow bracts on racemes that are produced throughout the warm months. The Latin specific epithet lutea means "yellow". It is cultivated as an ornamental, but in cold temperate regions it requires protection from temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F). It has won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Crossandra infundibuliformis (Firecracker-flower) (L.) Nees 1832
plant species in the acanthaceae family
Crossandra infundibuliformis, the firecracker flower or firecracker plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Angola, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sri Lanka, India and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sassafras albidum (White Sassafras) (Nutt.) Nees 1836
plant species in the lauraceae family
Sassafras albidum (sassafras, white sassafras, red sassafras, or silky sassafras) is a species of Sassafras native to eastern North America. It has a number of culinary and other uses.
Pachystachys Nees 1847
plant genus in the acanthaceae family
Pachystachys is a genus of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to rainforest in the Caribbean and Central and South America. They are evergreen perennials and shrubs bearing prominent terminal spikes of flowers with brightly coloured bracts. The name Pachystachys comes from the Greek for "thick spike", referring to the flower heads. The genus is closely related to Justicia. The species P. coccinea, P. lutea and P. spicata are found in cultivation. They can be grown outside in subtropical gardens in areas where the temperature does not fall below 10 °C (50 °F).
Eleocharis parvula (Dwarf Spike-rush) (Roem. & Schult.) Link ex Bluff, Nees & Schauer 1836
plant species in the cyperaceae family
Eleocharis parvula is a species of spikesedge known by the common names dwarf spikerush, small spikerush and hairgrass in aquaria. It is a plant of brackish and saltwater habitat, such as marshes and mudflats. It is a perennial herb growing tufts of spongy, compressible stems not more than 10 centimeters tall. The plant grows from a tuber which is J-shaped or horseshoe-shaped, a characteristic that helps in the identification of the species. The inflorescence is an oval-shaped spikelet just 2 or 3 millimeters long, made up of several tiny flowers.
Dendrocalamus Nees 1835
plant genus in the poaceae family
Dendrocalamus is a tropical Asian genus of giant clumping bamboos in the grass family. It is found in the Indian subcontinent, China, and Southeast Asia. Dendrocalamus giganteus is one of the tallest of bamboos, capable of reaching heights up to 46 m.
Symphyotrichum (American-aster) Nees 1832
plant genus in the asteraceae family
Symphyotrichum is a genus of over 100 species and naturally occurring hybrids of herbaceous annual and perennial plants in the composite family, Asteraceae, most which were formerly treated within the genus Aster. The majority are endemic to North America, but several also occur in the West Indies, Central and South America, as well as one species in eastern Eurasia. Several species have been introduced to Europe as garden specimens, most notably New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) and New York aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii).
Stipagrostis (Bushman Grasses) Nees 1832
plant genus in the poaceae family
Stipagrostis is a genus of African, Asian, and Russian plants in the grass family. Species
Sinningia Nees 1825
plant genus in the gesneriaceae family
Sinningia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae. It is named after Wilhelm Sinning (1792–1874), a gardener of the Botanische Gärten der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. There are about 65 species of tuberous herbaceous perennials, all occurring in Central and South America, with the greatest concentration of species occurring in southern Brazil. The best-known species, Sinningia speciosa, was originally introduced in cultivation as Gloxinia speciosa and is still commonly known to gardeners and in the horticultural trade as "gloxinia", although this is now considered
Schizostachyum (Polynesian 'ohe) Nees 1829
plant genus in the poaceae family
Schizostachyum is a tall or shrub-like tropical genus of bamboo. They are natives mostly of tropical Asia and Papuasia, with a few species in Madagascar and on certain islands in the Pacific. A few have become naturalized in other tropical regions.
Aphelandra squarrosa (Zebra Plant) Nees 1847
plant species in the acanthaceae family
Aphelandra squarrosa (commonly but ambiguously called "zebra plant") is a plant species in the family Acanthaceae, which is native to Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil. This plant is often used as a house plant. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
Graptophyllum Nees 1832
plant genus in the acanthaceae family
Graptophyllum is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 15 species with a disjunct distribution, with one species (Graptophyllum glandulosum) native to tropical Africa, and the others to New Guinea, Queensland, and the southwest Pacific Islands.
Andrographis (False Waterwillow) Wall. ex Nees 1832
plant genus in the acanthaceae family
Andrographis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. They may be generally known as the false waterwillows, and several are called periyanagai. The species are native to the Indian subcontinent (including Myanmar, Sri Lanka and the West Himalaya region). Many are endemic to India. They may be herbs or shrubs. They are introduced and/or cultivated in Southeast Asia and some areas around the Caribbean. Some species are used medicinally. The best known is Andrographis paniculata, which is valued in Ayurveda, Unani, and Siddha medicine. It is used to treat a very long list of
Schizachyrium (Bluestem) Nees 1829
plant genus in the poaceae family
Schizachyrium is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words σχίζειν (schizein), meaning "to split," and ἄχυρον (achyron), meaning "chaff." It refers to either the glume or the toothed lemmas. In the United States, members of the genus are commonly known as bluestems.
Sarcobatus (Greasewood) Nees 1839
plant genus in the sarcobataceae family
Sarcobatus is a North American genus of two species of flowering plants, formerly considered to be a single species. Common names for S. vermiculatus include greasewood, seepwood, and saltbush. Traditionally, Sarcobatus has been treated in the family Chenopodiaceae, but the APG III system of 2009 recognizes it as the sole genus in the family Sarcobataceae.
Phoebe Nees 1836
plant genus in the lauraceae family
Phoebe is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae. There are 75 accepted species in the genus, distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia and New Guinea. 35 species occur in China, of which 27 are endemic. The first description of the genus was of the type species P. lanceolata made in 1836 by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in Systema Laurinarum, p. 98.
Odontonema (Toothedthread) Nees 1842
plant genus in the acanthaceae family
Odontonema, the toothedthreads or firespikes, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 32 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Mexico to Peru and southeastern Brazil.
Eragrostis curvula (Weeping Love Grass) (Schrad.) Nees 1841
perennial plant species in the poaceae family
Eragrostis curvula is a species of grass known by the common name weeping lovegrass. Other common names include Boer lovegrass, curved lovegrass, Catalina lovegrass, and African lovegrass. It is native to southern Africa. It is an introduced species on other continents.
Dendrocalamus strictus ( Male Bamboo) (Roxb.) Nees 1835
medicinal plant species in the poaceae family
Dendrocalamus strictus is a tropical bamboo species belonging to the Dendrocalamus genus. The culms (stems) are often solid. Common names include male bamboo, solid bamboo, and Calcutta bamboo.
Tripolium (Aster) Nees 1832
plant genus in the asteraceae family
Tripolium is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.
Streptochaeta Schrad. ex Nees 1829
plant genus in the poaceae family
Streptochaeta is a genus of plants in the grass family. It is the only genus in the tribe Streptochaeteae of the family Poaceae. The species of Streptochaeta are native to neotropical realm regions of North America, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. As the genus is an early-diverging sister lineage in relation to most other grasses, the genome of S. angustifolia has been sequenced to study the evolution of the Poaceae.
Stenandrium (Shaggytuft) Nees 1836
plant genus in the acanthaceae family
Stenandrium is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as shaggytuft, in the family Acanthaceae, with 50 species of perennial herbs ranging from the southern United States to northern Argentina and central Chile.
Rubus plicatus (Plaited-leaved Bramble) Weihe & Nees 1822
plant species in the rosaceae family
Rubus plicatus is a species of blackberry native to Europe.
Dyschoriste (Twinflowers And Snakeherbs) Nees 1832
plant genus in the acanthaceae family
Dyschoriste is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 98 species native to the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, and southern Asia. Members of the genus are commonly known as snakeherb.
Beilschmiedia Nees 1831
plant genus in the lauraceae family
Beilschmiedia is a genus of trees and shrubs in family Lauraceae. Most of its species grow in tropical climates, but a few of them are native to temperate regions, and they are widespread in tropical Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand, North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. The best-known species to gardeners in temperate areas are B. berteroana and B. miersii because of their frost tolerance. Seeds of B. bancroftii were used as a source of food by Australian Aborigines. Timbers of some species are very valuable.
Actinodaphne Nees 1831
plant genus in the lauraceae family
Actinodaphne is an Asian genus of flowering plants in the laurel family (Lauraceae). It contains approximately 125 species of dioecious evergreen trees and shrubs. Species range across tropical and subtropical regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia, southern China, Japan, New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands, and Fiji. There are 17 Chinese species, 13 of which are endemic.
Nepenthes gymnamphora Reinw. ex Nees 1824
plant species in the nepenthaceae family
Nepenthes gymnamphora is a tropical pitcher plant native to the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. It has a wide altitudinal range of 600–2,800 metres (2,000–9,200 ft) above sea level. There is much debate surrounding the taxonomic status of this species and the taxa N. pectinata and N. xiphioides. The specific epithet gymnamphora is derived from the Greek words gymnos (naked) and amphoreus (pitcher).
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