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### Author
Mitscherlich, Gustav Alfred (1832-?), German botanist at Berlin University.
**Abbreviated name**: *Mitscherl.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Mitscherl.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 497; BM 3: 1324; Herder p. 400; Kew 4: 17; PR 6297-6298; Rehder 3: 594; Tucker 1: 491.
#### Eponymy
*Mitscherlichia* Klotzsch (1854) is dedicated to the brothers Eilhard Alfred Mitscherlich (1794-1863), German chemist, and Karl Gustav Mitscherlich (1805-1875), German pharmacologist. The former is also commemorated by *Mitscherlichia* Kunth (1832). *Mitscherlichia* Lorenz (1904) is dedicated to A. Mitscherlich, whose identity could not be established.
### Publications
##### n.6133. De Cacao
**Title**
*De Cacao*. Dissertatio inauguralis medico-pharmacologica quam consensu et auctoritate gratiosi medicorum ordinis in alma litterarum Universitate Friderica Guilelma ut summi in medicina et chirurgia honores rite sibi concedantur die xxvi. m. augusti a. mdccclvii h.l.q.s. publice defendet autor Alfredus Mitscherlich berolinensis... Berolini \[Berlin\] (typis expressit Gustavus Schade). \[1857\] Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Cacao*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 26 Aug 1857, p. \[1\]-35, \[36, expl. pl.\], *1 pl. Copy*: NY.
*Ref*.: Anon., Bot. Zeit. 17: 404-406, 428. 1859; Flora 43: 208, 651-653. 1860, 44: 496. 1861, Bull. Soc. bot. France 6: 506-510. 1859.
##### n.6134. Der Cacao und die Chocolade
**Title**
*Der Cacao und die Chocolade*... Berlin (Verlag von August Hirschwald...) 1859. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Cacao Chocolade*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1859 (so eben Bot. Zeit. 16 Dec 1859; rev. ib. 2 Dec 1859), p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-129, *pl. 1-3* (*1*, col.; *2-3* uncol.), map. *Copy*: NY.