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### Author
Ehrenberg, Carl August (1801-1849), German merchant and plant collector in the West Indies and Mexico, brother of C. G. Ehrenberg.
**Abbreviated name**: *C. Ehrenb.* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.Ehrenb.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection B|B]] and [[Collection HAL|HAL]], duplicates [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection POM|POM]], [[Collection STR|STR]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection W|W]].
*Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 108, 2: 178.
- Candolle, Phytographie 410. 1880.
- Urban, Symb. ant. 3: 44. 1902.
- McVaugh, Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 9: 233. 1972.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 3: 431; Barnhart 1: 498; CSP 2: 457-458; NDB 4: 349; PR foll. 2640.
- Hemsley, Biol. Centr. Amer. 4: 128. 1887.
- Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 24(3) Beibl. 58: 3-15. 1897.
- Urban, Symb. ant. 1: 151. 1898, 3: 43-44. 1902.
- Schumann, Monatschr. Kakteenk. 10: 138-143. 1900.
- Schmid, Chamisso als Naturforscher 181, 293, 303. 1942.
- Hunt, J. Mammillaria Soc. 12(4): 45-46. 1972.
#### Eponymy
*Ehrenbergia* C. F. P. Martius (1827) and *Ehrenbergia* K. P. J. Sprengel are dedicated to his elder brother Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876), q.v.