Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy's itinerary in southern Iran, 1841-42

摘要

An itinerary is presented of the 1841-42 expedition to southern Iran by the Silesian botanist Theodor Kotschy (1813-66), together with a short biography, a discussion of specimen numbering and a gazetteer containing variant spellings of places visited, with their geographical coordinates. The plant collections of Theodor Kotschy (1813-66) from southern Iran laid the foundations of our knowledge of the flora of the Zagros Mts and their southern foothills, and of the Gulf islands of Khark and Khargu. At least 276 of the more than 800 gatherings subsequently became the types of new species, most being first described by Edmond Boissier (1810-85) in his series Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum (Boissier 1843-59) and in Flora Orientalis (Boissier 1867-84).