Paul Dietrich Giseke

German botanist, physician, teacher and librarian (1741-1796).

Paul Dietrich Giseke (8 December 1741 – 26 April 1796) was a German botanist, physician, teacher and librarian. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. Giseke was the son of a Hamburg merchant. He started his studies at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg. He joined the University of Göttingen in 1764 and graduated in medicine in 1767. He then went on an extended trip through France and Sweden and met Linnaeus, becoming his student and a lifelong friend - Linnaeus named the genus Gisekia, now in family Gisekiaceae, after him. Giseke made notes of Linnaeus' lectures and published them in 1792 as Praele

Abbreviations: Giseke
Occupations: teacher, librarian, botanist
Citizenships: Germany
Languages: German
Dates: 1741-12-08T00:00:00Z – 1796-01-01T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Hamburg
Direct attributions: 10 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 13 plants, 0 fungi

10 plants attributed, 3 plants contributed to13 plants:

Piperaceae (Pepper Family) Giseke 1792
plant family in the order piperales
The Piperaceae, also known as the pepper family, are a large family of flowering plants. The group contains roughly 3,600 currently accepted species in five genera. The vast majority of species can be found within the two main genera: Piper (2,171 species) and Peperomia (over 1,000 species). Members of the Piperaceae may be small trees, shrubs, or herbs. The distribution of this group is best described as pantropical. The best-known species, Piper nigrum, yields most peppercorns that are used as spices, including black pepper, although its relatives in the family include many other spices.
Etlingera (Waxflower) Giseke 1792
plant genus in the zingiberaceae family
Etlingera is a genus of Indo-Pacific herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae, consisting of more than 100 species found in tropical regions of Afro-Eurasia. Some of the larger species have leafy shoots reaching almost 10 metres high, and the bases of these shoots are so stout as to seem almost woody. Others of the species grow as clumps of leafy shoots; while others have such long creeping rhizomes that each of their leafy shoots can be more than a metre apart. Unique and distinctive to all Etlingera is a tube forming above the point where the base of the
Areca vestiaria (Red Crownshaft Palm) Giseke 1792
plant species in the arecaceae family
Areca vestiaria (pinang yaki or pinang merah) is a species of palm native to the rainforests of eastern Indonesia especially North Sulawesi. Its morphology is more diverse than other species of palms, and in particular the color of its upper trunk / crownshaft changes depending on altitude (varying between red and orange). The people of Sulawesi, near Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park, have long used the fruit of this palm as a male contraceptive. They drink a decoction of the fruit flesh boiled in water. The chemical composition of the fruit has been investigated with this in mind, but
Wurfbainia Giseke 1792
plant genus in the zingiberaceae family
Wurfbainia is an Asian genus of flowering plants in the family Zingiberaceae. Species in this genus have been recorded from the Himalayas, South China, Indo-China and Western & Central Malesia. It has previously been placed as a synonym of Amomum.
Etlingera littoralis (Earth Ginger) (J.Koenig) Giseke 1792
plant species in the zingiberaceae family
Etlingera littoralis is a species of flowering plant in the family Zingiberaceae (gingers), with no subspecies listed in the Catalogue of Life. It is found in lowland tropical forest floors (up to 300 m) in Hainan, Indo-China and Malesia.
Meistera Giseke 1792
plant genus in the zingiberaceae family
Meistera is an Asian genus of plants in the family Zingiberaceae. Species have been recorded from Tropical & Subtropical Asia to northern Queensland.
Martensia Giseke 1792
plant genus in the delesseriaceae family
Martensia is a genus of red algae, containing the following species: The genus name of Martensia is in honour of George Matthias von Martens (1788–1872), who was a German lawyer, botanist and phycologist. The genus was circumscribed by Constantin Hering in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. vol.8 on page 92 in 1841.
Wurfbainia uliginosa (J.Koenig) Giseke 1792
plant species in the zingiberaceae family
Wurfbainia uliginosa is the type species of the recently reconstituted plant genus Wurfbainia in the ginger family. Its native range is from Indo-China to Sumatra.
Haemanthus capensis Giseke 1792
plant species in the amaryllidaceae family
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Areca oriziformis var. saxatilis Burm.f. ex Giseke 1792
plant variety in the arecaceae family
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Drymophloeus oliviformis (Giseke) Mart. 1849
plant species in the arecaceae family
Drymophloeus oliviformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is found only in Indonesia (Maluku and Western New Guinea). It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pigafetta filaris (Wanga Palm) (Giseke) Becc. 1877
plant species in the arecaceae family
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Pholidocarpus ihur (Giseke) Blume 1847
plant species in the arecaceae family
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