Ernst Georg Pritzel

Ernst Georg Pritzel was a German botanist.
He is known for his research in the fields of phytogeography and taxonomy. He contributed works on Lycopodiaceae, Psilotaceae and Pittosporaceae to Engler & Prantl’s "Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien".
In 1900–02, with Ludwig Diels, he collected plants in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. They published the results of their expedition in the Botanische Jahrbücher in 1904–05. Their findings included 235 new species. Pritzel issued and distributed the exsiccata-like specimen series Plantae Australiae occidentalis 1901–1902 editae.
The fungi genus Pritzeliella was named after him by Paul [Christoph Hennings] in 1903 and Melaleuca pritzelii by Karel Domin in 1923.

Publications

Südwest-Australien 1933 - Southwest Australia
Lycopodiaceae
Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebens-Verhältnisse 1905 - Contributions to the knowledge of Western Australian plants, their distribution and environment.