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Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (1888-1948) was a Ukrainian botanist. He travelled widely over the Caucasus region collecting and studying various different plant life. He is most known for Pteridophytes and Spermatophytes species. ==Biography== Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (or Grossgeim) was born in Lichovka (also known as Lykhivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast). He was an expert on the flora of the Caucasus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000151575 )〕 After graduating from University of Moscow with a doctorate in 1912, he became the director of the Azerbaijan Institute of Botany.〔 In 1919, he described ''Fritillaria grandiflora'', which later re-classified as a subspecies of ''Fritillaria kotschyena'' and ''Fritiallaria tatianae''. From 1929 he moved to the Tiflis (Tbilisi) Botanic Garden in Georgia. He still carried on plant collecting expeditions in the Caucasus.〔 Between 1928 and 1934, he recorded up to 5767 plant species (out of the 6200 recorded species) in his volumes of ''Flora Kavaza'' (''Flora of the Caucasus'', 1928-1934). In 1939, he started a second volume with annotated maps.〔David G. Frodin 〕 In 1946, Grossheim was appointed curator of the Caucasian Herbarium at the Komarov Botanical Institute in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), and also director of the Department of Plant Systematics and Morphology at St. Petersburg University. When he died in 1948, he was still working on the second edition of his ''Flora Kavkaza'', which was continued by his colleague Andrej Fedorov.〔 Losina-Losinskaya named ''Fritillaria grossheimiana'' in his honour, but this is now thought to be a synonym of'' Fritillaria crassifolia'' subsp. ''kurdica''.〔 The genus ''Grossheimia'' Sosn. & Takht. (synonym ''Centaurea'') was named in his honour. ''Grossheimiana'' was also used as a name for a subgenus of grasses.〔Harold T. Clifford, Peter D. Bostock〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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