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### Author
Flotow, Julius Christian Gottlieb Ulrich Gustav Georg Adam Ernst Friedrich von (1788-1856), German botanist and "Königlicher Preussischer Major," lived from 1824 onward in Hirschberg, Riesengebirge.
**Abbreviated name**: *Flot.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Flot.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection B|B]] (destroyed), other material [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection HAL|HAL]], [[Collection STR|STR]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]].
*Exsiccatae*: *Lichenes exsiccati* (cent. i-v, nos. 1-448(-500), 1829-?), sets at [[Collection B|B]] (destroyed), [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GRO|GRO]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]]. *Deutsche Lichenen*, in ed., [[Collection B|B]] (destroyed), [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (n. 1-95).
*Ref*.: GR p. 13; IH 2: 201.
- Anon., Bot. Zeit. 15: 504, 520. 1857.
- Candolle, Phytographie 412. 1880.
- Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 264, 275, 286, 299, 346. 1916.
- Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 124-125. 1969.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 552; BM 2: 586; CSP 2: 642, 7: 679; GR p. 12, 13; Jackson p. 224, 305; LS 8870-8894b, 17765, 18834; MW 319; PR 2944.
- Nees, Bonplandia 4: 294-296. 1856.
- Bail, Flora 39: 559-560. 1856.
- Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 14: 662-664. 1856.
- Anon., Bonplandia 6: 335. 1858.
- Boll, Fl. Mecklenburg 6: 155. 1860.
- Krempelhuber, Gesch. Lit. Lichenologie 2: 193-196. 1869.
#### Composite works
Contributed to Kützing, *Deutschlands Algen* (1845).
#### Eponymy
*Flotovia* \[sic\] K. P. J. Sprengel (1826).
#### Note
Flotow's cognomen in the Leopoldina was Flörke.