> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 198](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266505) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1255-1) LSID 1255-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6054688) QID Q6054688 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Buchtien, Otto|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Buchtien, Otto August (1859-1946), German botanist, explorer of the Andes, born in Rostock, studied at the University of Rostock, Dr. phil. ib. 1887, moved to South America, teacher in Chile (ca. 1906), later idem in Bolivia and director of the National Museum of La Paz, collected widely in Bolivia, Northern Patagonia, and Peru, returned to Germany 1936. **Abbreviated name**: *Buchtien* \[standard form in IPNI: *Buchtien*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection US|US]] (22.000, rd. 1922; various collectors), further material in [[Collection AMES|AMES]], [[Collection B|B]] (2000; also from Herb. Ullepitsch), [[Collection BAF|BAF]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BP|BP]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GB|GB]], [[Collection GE|GE]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection HBG|HBG]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection JE|JE]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection LPB|LPB]], [[Collection LY|LY]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NSW|NSW]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection O|O]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection SGO|SGO]], [[Collection SI|SI]], [[Collection SP|SP]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection VT|VT]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WAG|WAG]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]], [[Collection WU|WU]], [[Collection Z|Z]]. - (1) Some collections made with Ernst Karl Franz Günther, see IH 2: 245. - (2) Buchtien's number book (field notes etc) is at [[Collection NY|NY]]. - (3) Buchtien distributed exsiccatae: *Herbarium bolivianum* 1911-1928, included in our list above of herbaria holding B's material. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 275; BL 1: 237; BM 1: 276; Bossert p. 57; Clokie p. 140; CSP 13: 892; IH 2: 104, 245; Kew 1: 410; TL-2/1: 396 and see indexes; Urban-Berl. p. 319, 334. #### Biofile - Buchtien, O., Contr. fl. Bolivia 1, La Paz, 1910 (checklist Bolivian colls.). - Cárdenas, M., Disertac. bot. amin. biol. 1969 (on B. removed his plants when he left Bolivia and sold them to US in 1922). - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world no. 340 (200b). 1984. - Funk, V.A. and A. Scott Mori, Smithson. Contr. Bot. 70: 5. 1989 (lists herb. with B. material). - Herrera, F.L., Estud. Flora Dept. Cuzco, Lima 1930, p. 24. - Herzog, Th., Pfl.-Welt Boliv. Anden 3. 1923 (Veg. Erde 15). - Hitchcock, A.S., Sci. monthly 20: 163-175. 1925 (on Hitchcock and B. in the field). - Reynolds Green, J., Hist. bot. 241. 1909. - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 69, 153. 1981 (mss.). - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gotting. 32-33. 1982 (major source, with notes from mss. H.P. Fuchs-Eckert and A. Dittmann). ### Publications ##### n.23.549. Entwicklungsgeschichte des Prothalliums von Equisetum **Title** *Entwicklungsgeschichte des Prothalliums von Equisetum*. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde der philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Rostock vorgelegt von Otto Buchtien... Cassel (Verlag von Theodor Fischer) 1887. Qu. **Notes** *Thesis issue*: 1887 (p. 49: 7 Jan 1887), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-49. \[no plates in the copies seen by us\]. *Copies*: BKL, GOET, L. – No date of defense thesis known to us. *Regular issue*: 1887 (p. 49: 7 Jan 1887; Bot. Centralbl. 26-30 Sep 1887; Nat. Nov. Sep (2) 1887), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-49, *pl. 1-6* (uncol. liths.), on p. \[ii\]: "Separat-Abdruck aus der *Bibliotheca botanica* no. 8". *Copy*: G. *Ref*.: Burgenstein, Alfred \[1850-1929\], ÖBZ 38: 101-102. 1 Mar 1888 (rev.). - Karsten, G., Bot. Zeit. 46: 239-241. 13 Apr 1888. ##### n.23.550. Contribuciones **Title** *Contribuciones* a la *Flora de Bolivia* I. Parte... La Paz – Bolivia (Tall. Tip.-Lit.de J.M. Gamarra) 1910. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Contr. Fl. Bolivia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1910, cover-t.p., p. \[i\], \[1\]-197. *Copy*: L. *Note*: List only with descriptions of new species and citation of localities. – Direccion general de estadística y estudios geografícos-sección: Museo nacional.