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### Author
Lichtenstein, August Gerhard Gottfried (1780(?)-1851), German botanist at Helmstädt.
**Abbreviated name**: *A. Licht.* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Licht.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown. H's considerable herbarium (45.000 specimens) was sold after his death. It contained material collected and/or distributed by Hohenacker, Hochstetter, Drège, Hampe, etc.
#### Dates
BM and PR give *b*. 1780, but Barnhart notes that this is a confusion with the zoologist and surgeon Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein (b. 10 Jan 1780, d.d 3 Sep 1857; see Bonplandia 5: 330, 6: 337) who collected also botanical material during his stay in South Africa (1802-1806) (see e.g. Lasègue and Zep-Tim, p. 75; "Hinrich"; Dr. med. Helmstedt 1802; from 1809 in Berlin; founder, 1844, of the Zoolog. Garten and its director until 1857).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 378; BM 3: 1109, 4: 1552; Herder p. 138; Jackson p. 15; Kew 3: 437; PR 5287 (ed. 1: 5860); Rehder 5: 509.
- Anon., Bot. Zeit. 9: 856, 925-926. 1851 (herb. for sale); Flora 35: 79. 1852; Österr. bot. W. 2: 7. 1852 (herb. for sale), 2: 44. 1852 (d. 3 Sep 1851).
#### Eponymy
*Lichtensteinia* Willdenow (1808, *nom. rej.*). *Lichtensteinia* Wendland (1808, *nom. rej.*), and *Lichtensteinia* Chamisso & Schlechtendal (1826, *nom. cons.*) are dedicated to Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein (1780-1857), German zoologist and botanist, who travelled and made botanical collections in Southern Africa (1802-1806).
### Publications
##### n.4500. Index alphabeticus generum botanicarum
**Title**
*Index alphabeticus generum botanicarum* quotquot a Willdenovio in speciebus plantarum et a Persoonio in synopsi plantarum recensentur concinnatus ab A. G. G. Lichtenstein,... Helmstadii (impressus typis Leuckartiorum patris et filii.) 1814. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Index gen. bot.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1814, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-88. *Copies*: B (photocopy), G, HH.