Eduard Fenzl [SEP] place of birth
Eduard Fenzl
Eduard Fenzl (1808, Krummnußbaum – 1879, Vienna) was an Austrian botanist.
Life and contributions.
An obituary notes "[h]e was Professor of Botany and Director of the Imperial Botanical Cabinet, a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, and Vice-President of the Vienna Horticultural Society."
Fenzl made contributions towards Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius's "Flora Brasiliensis" and to Stephan Endlicher's "Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae", etc. He was the author of "
by Eduard Fenzl in 1836 in the first part of a monograph on what he regarded as two parts of the family Portulacaceae (Mollugineae and Steudelieae); he attributed the genus name to Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer. He described the species "Hypertelis spergulacea" in 1839 in a second part of his monograph, again attributing the name to Meyer. Fenzl did not give a type for the genus; "H. spergulacea" was designated as the "type species" by E. P. Philips in 1951. "H. spergulacea"