Karl Moritz Schumann

Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.
Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Berlin-Dahlem [Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum|Botanisches Museum] in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft which he founded on 6 November 1892. He died in Berlin.
Karl Moritz Schumann participated as a collaborator in Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien by Adolf Engler and K. A. E. Prantl and in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl [Friedrich Philipp von Martius].
The genera Schumannianthus, Schumanniophyton, Schumannia and several species were named after him, including: