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### Author
Otto, \[Christoph\] Friedrich (1783-1856), German botanist and gardener; at the Berlin botanical garden 1801-1843; director of the Schöneberg horticultural school 1823-1843.
**Abbreviated name**: *Otto* \[standard form in IPNI: *Otto*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection B|B]] (orig. 15.000; mainly destroyed with general herbarium in 1943), duplicates e.g. at [[Collection GOET|GOET]] and [[Collection LIV|LIV]].
#### Bibliography and biography
BM 3: 1485; DU 185; Frank 3(Anh.): 73; Hortus 3: 1201 ("Otto"); Kew 4: 202; Lasègue p. 334; NI (alph.); PR (alph.) (ed. 1: 7681-7682); Rehder 5: 638-640; TL-1/711-713, 976; TL-2/2215, see Dietrich, A. G., Guimpel, F., Klotzsch, J. F.; Tucker 1: 532-533; Urban-Berl. p. 380; Zander ed. 10, p. 698-699, ed. 11, p. 796; Zep.-Tim. p. 89 (b. 4 Dec 1773, err. for 1783).
- Anon. \[prob. F. L. Dietrich\], Allg. Gart.-Zeit. 24: 289-291. 1856 (obit., list society memberships); Bonplandia 4: 305. 1856 (d. 7 Sep 1856); Bot. Not. 1858: 13 (d.); Bot. Zeit. 14: 696. 1856; Bull. Soc. bot. France 3: 527. 1856; Monatschr. Pomol. prakt. Obstbau 2: 408. 1856; Österr. bot. W. 6: 335. 1856 (d.).
- Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 438. 1880 (coll. B).
- Hall, N., Botanists of the Eucalypts 102. 1978.
- Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 377, 394. 1884.
- Kukkonen, I., Herb. Chr. Steven 76. 1971.
- Otto, K. F. E. (as-n-), Hamb. Gart.-Bl.-Zeit. 12:470-473. 1856, also in Flora 39: 652-655. 1856, extract in Bonplandia 4: 338-339. 1856 (obit., bibl., b. 4 Dec 1783, d. 7 Sep 1856).
- Regel, E., Gartenflora 6: 64, 160. 1857 (obit.).
- Schmid, G., Chamisso als Naturforscher 171 \[index\]. 1942.
- Stearn, W. T., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 1: 105-107. 1937 (on Link, Klotzsch and Otto, *Ic. pl. hört. bot. berol.*); Cactus J. 8: 39-46 1939 (on Pfeiffer & Otto's *Abbild. Beschr. Cad.*).
#### Composite works
- (1) Link, J. H. F., Klotzsch, F. et Otto, C. F., *Icones plantarum rariorum horti regii bol. berol.*1841-1844, see under Link.
- (2) Pfeiffer, L. und F. Otto, *Abbildung und Beschreibung blühender Cacteen*. I. Band, Cassel 1843, see under Pfeiffer.
- (3) *In*C. G. Nees, *Horae phys. berol.*27-38. 1820 (*Plantae rariores*...).
- (4) with Albert Dietrich, editor of *Allgemeine Gartenzeitung*, Berlin, vols. 1-24, 1833-1856. (IDC 7362).
- (5) Link, J. H. F. et Otto, C. F., *Icones plantarum selectarum horti regii berolinensis*, 1820-1828, see under Link.
- (6) Link, J. H. F. et Otto, C. F., *Icones plantarum rariorum horti regii botanici berolinensis*, 1828-1831, see under Link.
#### Handwriting
Candollea 32: 199-200. 1977.
#### Eponymy
*Ottoa*Kunth (1821); *Ottoa*J. A. Schuhes et J. H. Schultes (1827, *orth. var.* of *Ottonia* K. P. J. Sprengel); *Ottonia*K. P. J. Sprengel (1820). Note: *Oltochloa*Dandy (1931) commemorates Otto Stapf, q. v.; *Ottokaria*R. Zeiller (1902) was named for Ottokar Feistmantel (1848-1891), a paleobotanist; *Ottonosia* W. H. Twenhofel (1919) was named for the town of Otto, Kansas, U. S. A.; the derivation of *Ottonia* Schiller (1925) was not given by the author.