Karl August Otto Hoffmann

Karl August Otto Hoffmann was a German botanist and a high school teacher in Berlin. Author of Sertum plantarum madagascariensium, the genus Hoffmanniella in the family Asteraceae was named after him by Rudolf Schlechter. The plant genus of Hoffmannanthus (also in the family of Asteraceae was named after him in 2014. ^{Karl August Otto Hoffmann, German botanist (d. 1909)}

25 October 1853

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