> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 413](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258891) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3417-1) LSID 3417-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2368398) QID Q2368398 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Grossheim \[Grossgeim\], Alexander \[Aleksandr\] Alphonsovitch \[Alfonsovich\] (1888-1948), Ukrainian-born Soviet botanist, born 6 Mar 1888 in Lichovka nr. Verchnedneprovsk, Ekaterinoslav (from 1926 Dnipropetrovsk), educated at Karkov, Moscow and Tiflis (Tibilisi), worked at Tiflis Botanic Garden, Baku 1929-1946 and then in Leningrad 1946-1948, died 4 Dec 1948 in Leningrad. **Abbreviated name**: *Grossh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Grossh.*\] #### Note Invariably botanical literature cites his surname as "Grossheim", but the transliteration rules we are following would have us write "Grossgeim", which is how he is treated in most library catalogs. #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TBI|TBI]], duplicates [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BAK|BAK]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection DSU|DSU]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection ERE|ERE]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LAU|LAU]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LECB|LECB]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MW|MW]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection TB|TB]]. *Exsiccatae*: Grossheim & B.K. Schischkin, *Plantae orientales exsiccatae*, Tiflis, 1924-1928 (Fascs. 1-16, Nos. 1-400), sets at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LAU|LAU]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection TBI|TBI]]?, Z. *Note*: There is also a 2 vol. "*Schedae ad Herbarium 'Plantae orientales exsiccatae'*". *Copies*: [[Collection BM|BM]] (n.v.), [[Collection K|K]] (n.v.), [[Collection MO|MO]] (p.p.) (n.v.). #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 244; Barnhart 2: 91; BFM p. 287 (index); Biol.-Dokum. 7: 86.923; Frodin ed. 2: 1082 (index); Hirsch p. 106; Hortus 3: 1194; IF suppl. 4: 322, 354; IH 2: 242; Kew 2: 519; Lipschitz 3: 59-67; MW suppl. p. 79 (as "Grossgeim"); TL-2/2, 2/4, 2/5 (indices); Tucker 3: 127-128; Zander ed. 11: 758, ed. 17: 950. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 368. 1931. - Akhundov, G.F. & R.A. Fataliev, 1978. Izv. Akad. Nauk Azerbajdzansk. SSR, Biol. Nauk. 1: 131-132. \[90th anniversary of G.'s birth\] - Burdet, H.M., 1979. Auxilium ad botanicorum graphicem: \[sub Grossheim\]. (handwr.) - Charpin, A. & J. Timbal, 2007. Acta Bot. Gallica 154: 454. - Geideman, T., 1949. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 34: 336-337. - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond (eds.), 1970. Index collectors Edinburgh Herb.: 86. - Ilinskaia, I.A. & M.I. Kirpichnikov, 1949. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 34: 337-339. - Kolakovsky, A.A., 1989. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 74: 124-127. \[centenary of birth\] - Lavrenko, E.M., 1949. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 34: 326-335. (bibl.) - Shetler, S.G., 1967. The Komarov Bot. Inst.: 113, 154. (portr., facing p. 98) - Smirnova, N.V., 1953. Aleksandr Alfonsovich Grossgeim, 1888-1948, Moskva (Akademiia nauk SSSR): 127 p. (n.v.) - Sochovskii, D., 1948. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 33: 379-383. \[G.'s 60th birthday\] #### Eponymy *Grossheimia* Sosn. & Takht. (1945). #### Outside our period - (1) *Rastitelnyi pokrov Kavkaza* \[=*Vegetation wealth* of the *Caucasus*\]... 1948; Ed. 2,... 1952 (with A.L. Takhtajan). - (2) *Opredelitel rastenii Kavkaza* \[=*Key* to the *plants* of *Caucasus*\]... 1949. (3) *Obzor noveishikh sistem tsvetkovykh rastenii* \[=*Review* of *modern systems* of *flowering plants*\]... 1966, edited by M.F. Sakhokia; English transl.,... Boston Spa, Yorkshire (National Lending Library for Science and Technology) \[1967?\]. #### Composite works Contributed treatments to V.L. Komarov et al. (eds.), *Fl. URSS* (see TL-2/2, nr. 3857; e.g. vols. 4, 11, 13). ### Publications ##### n.37.298. Novye dannye **Title** *Novye dannye* dlia *flory Talysha* i drugikh oblastei Kavkaza \[=*Nouvelles données* pour la *flore* du *Talych* et d'autres régions du Caucase\]... Tiflis (Tipografiia nasl. K.P. Kozlovsky) 1920. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 10 Aug 1920 (cover t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-48. *Copy*: NY. – In series, Trudy Tiflissk. Bot. Sada, ser. 2, fasc. 1. 1920. *Note*: (1) Text in Russian, summary (p. 47-48) in French. (2) The entry in the bibl. by Lavrenko (1949, nr. 22) suggests that there was a precursory paper, viz. Vestn. Tiflissk. Bot. Sada 3-4(46-47): 25-78. 1919 (n.v.). ##### n.37.299. Flora Tiflisa **Title** *Flora Tiflisa*, Pt. 1 \[=*Flora Tphilisiensis*\]... Tiflis \[Muzeia Gruzii\] 1925. Oct. **Notes** *Co-authors*: Sosnovskii \[Sosnowskyi\], D.I., see IH 2: 930; and Schischkin \[Shishkin\], Boris Konstantinovich (1886-1963), see TL-2/5: 183-184 and IH 2: 841-842. *Publ*.: 13 Mai 1925 (date of pref.), p. \[i\]-xxix \[p. vi-xxix= key to families\], \[1\]-211, \[i\]-iii \[=index\], \[unnumb. errata page\]. *Copies*: BM (n.v., as serial), MO (n.v.), USDA (in serial). – In series, Travaux du Muséum de Georgie, No. 3. 1925. *Note*: Although labeled Part 1, there does not appear to have been a continuation. ##### n.37.300. Flora Talysha **Title** *Flora Talysha*: s predisloviem N.I. Kuznetsova... Tiflis (Narkomzem Azerbaidzhanskoi Sovetskoi Sotsialisticheskoi Respubliki) 1926. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1926, cover-t.p., p. \[i\]-x, \[1\]-273, *pl. 1-16* (uncol. phot., maps (1 col. fold.), schemata (1 fold.)). *Copies*: NY, USDA. *Note*: (1) Text in Russian, summaries in English (p. 249-270) and Persian (p. 271-273). (2) See nr. 37.301 for a separately published, German summary. ##### n.37.301. Vegetation **Title** *Vegetation* und *Flora* des *Talysch-Gebiets*... Dresden-N. (Verlag von C. Heinrich) 1926. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1926, cover (identif.), p. \[1\]-33. *Copies*: G, K (n.v.), USDA, WU. – Reprinted and to be cited from Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 43, Abt. II, Heft 1: 1-33. 1926. *Note*: This is a separately published, German summary of *Flora Talysha* (see nr. 37.300). *Ref*.: Krause, K., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 61: 74-75. 15 Nov 1927 (rev.). ##### n.37.302. Flora Kavkaza **Title** *Flora Kavkaza* \[=*Flora* of the *Caucasus*\]... Tiflis (Nar. komissariat zemledeliia S.S.R. Armenii) 1928-1934, 4 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Kavkaza*. **Notes** *Publ*. \[*Vol. 1*\]: 1928 (p. iv signed 20 Nov 1927), Vysshie sporovye-odnodolnye..., p. \[i\]-viii, 1-296, loose errata slip. *Copies*: HH, K (photocopy), NY (n.v.). – In series, Trudy Bot. Sada S.S.R. Armenii, vyp. 1. *Vol. 2*: 1930 (p. iii signed Mar 1930), Dvudolnye (Saururaceae-Leguminosae)... Tiflis (Narodnyi Kommisariat Zemledeliia SSR Armenii), cover-t.p., p. \[i\]-xvi, 1-438. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH, K, NY. *Microfiche* \[Vols. 1-2\]: Zug, Switzerland (Inter Documentation Company), \[19–\]. *Copy*: (n.v.). – Id., vyp. 2. *Vol. 3*: 1932 (p. \[ii\] signed 10 Mai 1932), Geraniaceae-Scrophulariaceae,... Tiflis..., p. \[i-ii\], 1-405, \[i\]-iv \[=index\]. *Copy*: K (photocopy). *Note*: K. Ronniger contributed *Thymus* (p. 334-347), see TL-2/4: 878; J. Wagner contributed Tiliaceae (p. 54-57). *Vol. 4*: 1934 (p. 3 date submitted to printer 29 Jul 1934, p. 5 signed Apr 1932), Orobanchaceae-Compositae (Rosaceae), Baku (Izd. Az. Otd. Zak. Fil. Ak. Nauk), p. \[1\]-342, \[i-ii, index\]. *Copies*: K (photocopy), UC-Berkeley (n.v.). *Note* \[*1-4*\]: Title page also in Armenian (or Georgian ?). *Ed. 2*: *Flora Kavkaza*: vtoroe pererabotannoe i dopolnennoe izdanie... Baku (Akademiia nauk Azerbaidzhanskoi SSR)/Moskva \[Moscow\] (Izdatelstvo Akademii nauk SSSR) 1939-1967, 7 vols. Qu. (*Fl. Kavkaza*, *ed. 2*). *Publ*. \[*Vol. 1*\]: 7 Apr 1939 (date printing authorized on colophon, pref. p. xi signed 24 Feb 1938), Polypodiaceae-Gramineae,... Baku (Akademiia nauk S.S.S.R. Azerbaidzhanskii filial), p. \[i\]-xi, \[1\]-402, \[403\], errata slip, maps 1-324 \[2 maps per unnumb. page\], \[i\]-xxi \[=index\], \[xxii, colophon\]. *Copies*: BM (photocopy) (n.v.), HH (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO (n.v.), US. *Microfilm*: Moskva (Gosudarstvennaia biblioteka SSSR im. V.I. Lenina), 1963, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: US. *Vol. 2*: 7 Sep 1940 (date printing authorized on colophon), Cyperaceae-Orchidaceae,... p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-284, maps 1-285 \[map 1 on separate page, the remainder 2 per unnumb. page\], \[i\]-ii, \[iii\]-xiv \[=index & p. xiv, colophon\]. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO (n.v.), US. *Vol. 3*: 1945 (t.p., 1 Aug 1944 date printing authorized on colophon, foreword p. ix signed 18 Jul 1944), Saururaceae-Caryophyllaceae,... Baku, p. \[i-ix\], \[1\]-321, maps 1-341 \[map 1 on separate page, the remainder 2 per unnumb. page\], \[i\]-xvii \[=index\], \[xviii, colophon\]. *Copies*: LC (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY, US. – Also issued as Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta im Akad. V.L. Komarova, vol. 15. *Vol. 4*: 1 Sep 1950 (date printing authorized on colophon), Nymphaeaceae-Platanaceae,... Moskva/Leningrad,... p. \[1\]-311, \[312, blank\], \[313\], maps 1-356 \[2 per unnumb. page\], \[i\]-xxi, \[xxii\] \[=index, i.e. p. i-xxii\], \[xxiii, colophon\]. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY, US. *Microfiche*: Zug, Switzerland (Inter Documentation Co.), \[196-\], 10 microfiches, 9×12 cm. *Copy*: NY (n.v.). *Vol. 5*: 3 Oct 1952 (date printing authorized on colophon), Rosaceae-Leguminosae,... Moskva/Leningrad,... p. \[1\]-453, \[454, blank\], \[455\], maps 1-528 \[2 per unnumb. page\], \[i\]-iii, \[iv\]-xxi, \[xxii\] \[=index, i.e. p. i-xxii\], errata slip, \[xxiii, colophon\]. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY, US. *Vol. 6*: "9/II 1962" (sic) (date printing authorized on colophon, but undoubtedly a typographical error for 9/XII 1962, i.e. 9 Dec 1962, since vol. was submitted to printer "19/X 1962"), Geraniaceae-Araliaceae,... Moskva/Leningrad,... p. \[1\]-256, \[257\], \[258, blank\], maps 1-300 \[2 per unnumb. page, but included in pagination!\]\], \[409\]-424 \[= index, i.e. p. 409-424, & colophon, p. 424\]. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY(2), US. *Vol. 7*: 25 Jul 1967 (date printing authorized on colophon), Umbelliferae-Scrophulariaceae, ... Leningrad (Izdatelstvo "Nauka" Leningradskoe Otdelenie),... p. \[1\]-549, \[550, blank\], \[551\], \[552, blank\], maps 1-620 (2 per unnumb. page but included in pagination!\], \[863\]-893, \[894\] \[=index, i.e. p. 863-894\], \[895, colophon\], \[896, advert.\]. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY, US(2). *Note*: (1) Andrei Aleksandrovich Fedorov (1909-1987) took over as editor of ed. 2 (beginning with vol. 5) after the death of Grossheim in 1948, but nonetheless this enlarged second edition remains incomplete. (2) Contributors of various taxonomic treatments are listed in the forewords of vols. 5-7, each foreword signed by A.F. Fedorov. ##### n.37.303. Vvedenie **Title** *Vvedenie* v *geobotanicheskoe obsledovanie zimnikh pastbishch* SSR *Azerbaidzhana* \[=*Introduction* to the *geo-botanical survey* of the *winter pastures* in the S.S.R. of *Azerbaidjan*\]... Baku (Izdanie Narkomzema) 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1929 (p. 68 signed 30 Sep 1928), p. \[1\]-75. *Copies*: K (n.v.), NY(2). – In series, Trudy Geobot. Obsl. Pastb. S.S.R. Azerbaidzhana, Ser. A, Zimn. Pastb., vyp. 1. 1929. *Note*: Text in Russian, summary (p. 69-75) in English. ##### n.37.304. Geobotanicheskii ocherk Muganskoi stepi **Title** *Geobotanicheskii ocherk Muganskoi stepi* \[=*Geo-botanic sketch* of the *Mugan steppe*\]... Baku (Izdanie Narkomzema) 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1929 (p. 71 signed 19 Dec 1928, p. 73 signed Dec 1928), p. \[1\]-73, 1 schema (fold.), 1 map (uncol., fold.). *Copies*: K (n.v.), NY. – In series, Trudy Geobot. Obsl. Pastb. S.S.R. Azerbaidzhana, Ser. A, Zimn. Pastb., vyp. 2. 1929. *Note*: Text in Russian, summary (p. 72-73) in English. ##### n.37.305. Ocherk rastitelnosti **Title** *Ocherk rastitelnosti* letnikh *pastbishch Nukhinskogo uezda* \[=*Geo-botanical sketch* of the *summer pastures* in the *Nuha District*\]... Baku (Izdanie Narkomzema) 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Iaroshenko \[Jaroschenko\], Pavel Dionisievich (1906-x). *Publ*.: 1929, cover-t.p., p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-84, *pl. 1-8* (uncol. schema, draw. or phot., 1 fold.), 1 map (uncol., fold.). *Copies*: K (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY. – In series, Trudy Geobot. Obsl. Pastb. S.S.R. Azerbaidzhana, Ser. B, Letn. Pastb., vyp. 1. 1929. *Note*: (1) Text in Russian, summary (p. 82-84) in English. (2) This is part 1, for part 2 see following entry (nr. 37.306). ##### n.37.306. Ocherk rastitelnosti **Title** *Ocherk rastitelnosti* letnikh *pastbishch Gandzhinskogo uezda* \[=A *sketsh* (sic) of the *vegetation* of the *summer pastures* in the *Gandja District*\]... Baku (Izdanie Narkomzema) 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Dolukhanov, Artem Georgievich (1900-x). *Publ*.: 1929, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-115, *pl. 1-7* (uncol. schema, draw. or phot., 1 fold.), 1 map (uncol., fold.). *Copies*: K (n.v.), NY. – In series, Trudy Geobot. Obsl. Pastb. S.S.R. Azerbaidzhana, Ser. B, Letn. Pastb., vyp. 2. 1929. *Note*: (1) Text in Russian, summary (p. 113-115) in English. (2) This is part 2, for part 1 see preceding entry (nr. 37.305). ##### n.37.307. Geobotanicheskii ocherk zimnikh pastbishch **Title** *Geobotanicheskii ocherk zimnikh pastbishch* levoberezhnoi chasti *Kazakhskogo uezda* \[=*Geo-botanical sketch* of *winter pastures* in the *left-bank* part of the *Kazakh District*\]... \[Baku\] 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Kolakovsky \[Kolakovskij\], Alfred \[Aldored\] Alekseevich \[Alekseyevich\] (1906-x), see IH 2: 377. *Publ*.: 1929, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-74, *pl. 1-5.* (1 fold. schema, 4 uncol. phot.), 1 map (uncol., fold.). *Copies*: K (n.v.), NY. – In series, Trudy Geobot. Obsl. Pastb. S.S.R. Azerbaidzhana, Ser. A, Zimn. Pastb., vyp. 3. 1929. *Note*: Text in Russian, summary (p. 73-74) in English. ##### n.37.308. Geobotanicheskii ocherk Karabakhskoi **Title** *Geobotanicheskii ocherk Karabakhskoi* stepi \[=*Geo-botanical sketch* of *Karabah Steppe*\]... Baku (Izdanie Narkomzema) 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Prilipko, Leonid Ivanovich (1907-1983), see IH 2: 711. *Publ*.: 1929, cover-t.p., p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-130, *pl. 1-16.* (1 fold. schema, 15 uncol. draw. or phot.), 1 map (uncol., fold.). *Copies*: K (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY. – In series, Trudy Geobot. Obsl. Pastb. S.S.R. Azerbaidzhana, Ser. A, Zimn. Pastb., vyp. 4. 1929. *Note*: Text in Russian, summary (p. 128-130) in English. ##### n.37.309. Ocherk rastitelnosti Milskoi stepi **Title** *Ocherk rastitelnosti Milskoi stepi* \[=*Sketch* of the *vegetation* of the *Mil Steppe*\]... Baku (Izdanie Narkomzema) 1930. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1930, p. \[1\]-120, *pl. 1-14* (schema, draw. or uncol. phot., 3 fold.), 1 map (uncol., fold.). *Copies*: K (n.v.), NY. – In series, Trudy Geobot. Obsl. Pastb. S.S.R. Azerbaidzhana, Ser. A, Zimn. Pastb., vyp. 6. 1930. *Note*: (1) Text in Russian, summary (p. 118-120) in English. (2) The entry in the bibliography by Lavrenko (1949, nr. 70) cites this as "Ocherk rastitelnosti mislkoi (sic) stepi". ##### n.37.310. Sketch **Title** *Sketch* of the *vegetation* of *Transcaucasia*: Azerbaidjan, Armenia and Georgia... Tiflis \[Georgian, S.S.R.\] 1930. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1930, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-35, 1 map (8 col., fold. pieces in envelope). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), MO (photocopy lacking maps) (n.v.), NY (n.v.), US (signed "with author's compliments A. Grossheim"), USDA. *Note*: (1) At head of title, The Transcaucasian Experimental-Research Institute of Water Economy. (2) Map also titled in Russian (Karta rastitelnogo pokrova Zakavkazia), English (Map of vegetation covering of Transcaucasia) and German (Karte der Vegetationsdecke von Transkaukasien). (3) Map scale: 1/420,000. ##### n.37.311. Analiz flory Kavkaza **Title** *Analiz flory Kavkaza* \[=*Analysis* of the *flora* of the *Caucasus*\]... \[Baku\] 1936. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 22 Mai 1936 (p. \[2\] date authorized for printing, p. 257 signed Dec 1933), p \[i-ii\], \[1\]-257, \[i-ii, table of contents\], 83 maps on 42 lvs. (part. col.), 59 schemata on 15 lvs. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), K, NY. – In series, Trudy Bot. Inst. (Baku) 1. 1936. *Note*: Text in Russian, summary (p. 242-247) in English. ##### n.37.312. rasprostranenii **Title** O *rasprostranenii* po *Kavkazu subtropicheskikh odnodolnykh prisheltsev-sorniakov* \[=The *propagation* in *Caucasus* of *sub-tropical monocotyledonous* introduced *weeds*\]... Baku (Izd-vo AzFAN) 1939. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 7 Jul 1939 (date authorized for printing on colophon), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-77, \[i, colophon\]. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), NY, UC-Berkeley (n.v.). *Note*: Summary in Turkish (?). ##### n.37.313. Lotos **Title** *Lotos* v *SSSR* \[=De *speciebus* generis *Nelumbium* in *URSS* crescentibus\]... 1940. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1940, p. 129-136. *Copy*: K (n.v.). – Reprinted and to be cited from Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 8(8): 129-136. 1940.