> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 854](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190325) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8516-1) LSID 8516-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79112) QID Q79112 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Roezl, Benedict (1824-1885), Bohemian horticulturist and seedsman; gardener in various Central European gardens, with VanHoutte at Gent, "chef de culture" at the Belgian school of horticulture; collecting in the United States, Mexico, Cuba and South America between 1854 and 1875; in retirement at Smichov, Praha; one of the most active collectors of living orchids. **Abbreviated name**: *Roezl* \[standard form in IPNI: *Roezl*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection W|W]] (Orch.). – Roezl made relatively few herbarium specimens (but see e.g. Reichenbach 1876); some of his shipments of living orchids went into the ten-thousands: Roezl's objectives had to be mainly commercial and he collected lavishly, apparently not hindered by thoughts about the future of the wild plants in question. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 357; Backer p. 497 (epon.); Barnhart 3: 171 (b. 12 Aug 1824, d. 14 Oct 1885); BM 4: 1721; CSP 11: 206-207, 12: 625; Ewan ed. 1: 291-292, ed. 2: 186; Herder p. 294; Hortus 3: 1202; IH 2: (in files); Langman p. 638-639 (detailed bibl. Mex.); Morren ed. 10, p. 33; Rehder 1: 331, 332, 5: 734; Tucker 1: 604; Zander ed. 10, p. 708, ed. 11, p. 808. #### Biofile - Acosta-Solis, M., Inst. Ecuat. Ci. nat. Contr. 65: 41. 1968 (in Guyaquil, Ecuador, 1873). - André, E., Rev. hortic. 57: 543-546. 1885 (obit.). - Anon., Bot. Not. 1885: 39 (d.); Bot. Gaz. 11: 47. 1886 (d.); Bot. Jahrb. 7 (Beibl. 13): 2. 1885 (d.); Gard. Chron. ser. 2. 2: 73. 1874 (travels, coll., portr.), 24: 521-522. 1885 (obit., portr.); L'Orchidophile 1885: 140-143, 169-171 (obit., portr.), (Engl. transi.:), Orchid Digest 37: 221-222. 1973; Österr. bot. Z. 35: 445. 1885 (d.); Rev. bot. Bull. mens. Soc. franç. Bot. 4: 335. 1885-1886 (d.); Sieboldia 1: 253-256. 1875 (travels). - Coats, A.M., Plant hunters 60, 341, 348-350, 373, 374-375. 1969. - Eastwood, A., Leafl. west. Bot. 5(6): 103. 1948 (on Lilium Roezlii). - Ewan, J., *in* Century nat. Sci. San Francisco 58. 1955. - Kanitz, A., Magy. novén. Lap. 10: 9-10. 1886. - Kline, M.C., Amer. Orch. Soc. Bull. 32(8): 611-613 (biogr. sketch). - McVaugh, R., Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 9: 294-296. 1972 (detailed info. on R's Mexican collections). - Morren, Éd., Belg. hortic. 30: 5-12. 1880 ("hommage", portr.). - Otto, E., Hamb. Gart.-Bl.-Zeit. 18: 166-168. 1862 (on R's collecting in Mexico), 30: 420-423. 1874 (travel reports). - Postolka, K., Ziva, Praha 22(6): 211. 1974 (biogr. sketch, memorial). - Parish, S.B., Bot. Gaz. 44(6): 414. 1907 (Palms). - Pynaert, Éd., Revue hort. belge étrang. 11: 246. 1885 (obit.). - Regel, E., Gartenflora 19: 296-297. 1870, 20: 6-8, 36, 37, 301-302. 1871, 21: 369. 1872 (travel reports). - Reichenbach, H.G., Bot. Zeit. 30: 802. 1872 (travel report); Linnaea 41: 1-16. 1846 (based on herb. specimens made by Roezl); Bot. Centralbl. 24: 159. 1885 (obit.; Czech father, German mother); J. Bot. 23: 381. 1885 (obit.). - Reinikka, M.A., A history of the Orchid 219-222. 1972 (portr., biogr.). - Roezl, B., Gartenflora 8: 131-138 (Reiseberichte aus Mexico, ed. E. Ortgies), 276-278. 1859, 9: 120-126, 195. 1890 (Reiseber.), 10: 7-13, 40-46, 119-131. (Reiseber.), 264. 1861, 11: 42, 59-62 (Reiseber.) 1862, 15: 62. 1866, 20: 70, 107. 1871 (Reiseber.); excerpts Reiseber. Hamb. Gart. Blum. Zeit. 18: 166-168. 1862 (in French:) Rev. hortic. 1861: 414-416. 1862, 39-40, 98-99, 118, 179-180 (by W. de Fonvielle), (in English:) Gard. Chron. 1862: 168; Deut. Gaertn.-Zeit. 4: 11-12, 34-36, 58-60, 78-79, 105-108, 129-131, 154-155, 180-181, 227. 1880 (Meine letzte Reise an der Westküste von Mexiko), partial translation by W.B. Hemsley, Gard. Chron. ser. 2. 19: 369, 415-416. 1883 (ascent of the Volcan de Colima), see also Belg. hort. 1880: 5-12 (portr.); La Belgique horticole 32: 68-113. 1882 (Mon dernier voyage à la côte occidentale du Mexique; translated from Deut. Gärtn. Zeit. 1880, "in the beginning of March I finished the packing and sending of 100.000 orchids, among them 22.000 specimens of *Odontoglossum cervantesi*; for which I had paid 5 francs per thousand...). - Sander, F., Orch. Rev. 60: 130. 1952 (letter F. Sander 17 Feb 1882 to Roezl, on Cattleya aurea). - Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Bot. Zeit. 16: 7-8. 1858 (review of Roezl. *Catalogue des graines de Conifères mexicains*. Mexico 1857, 34 p.; we failed to locate a copy of this catalogue; for a latin translation of the taxonomic parts see Schlechtendal, Linnaea 29: 326-356, 699-704. 1858. - Swinson, A., Frederick Sander: the orchid king 22-29. 1970 (portr., relations with Sander; Orchid Rev. 301. 1970. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 18. 1935. #### Eponymy *Roezlia* Regel (1871-72); *Roezliella* Schlechter (1918). ### Publications ##### n.9431. Catalogue des graines de Coniferes mexicains **Title** *Catalogue des graines de Coniferes mexicains* qui se trouvent chez B. Roezl & C.ie a Napoles pres Mexico. La pluspart découverts, décrits et récoltés par B. Roezl, ancien élève des jardins du comte F. de Thun, à Tetschen en Bohême; du baron Ch. de Hugel, à Vienne; ancien jardinier en chef à Medica, en Gallicie (comte Powlikowsky) et à Telsch, en Moravie (comte Leopold Podstatzky Luhlenstein), ancien chef de culture de l'institut horticole du gouvernement belge, etc. etc. Mexico (Imprimerie de M. Murguia, rue del Aguila de Oro). Iuin, 1857. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. grain. Conif. mexic.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1857 (t.p.), p. \[1\]-34. *Copy*: C (inf. A. Hansen). – Translation of descriptions into Latin by D.F.L. von Schlechtendal, Linnaea 29: 326-356, 699. 1858. *Ref*.: Carrière, E.O., Traité gén. conif. ed. 2. 1867 (reduction of some species). - Gorden, G., Pinetum suppl. 1862, ed. 2. 1875 (reduction of various Roezl species to synonymy). - Ortgies, E., Gartenflora 7: 381-382. 1858, 8: 276-278. 1859. - Parlatore, F., *in* DC., Prodr. 16(2). 1868 (reduces all Roezl species of Pinus to synonymy). - Shaw, G.R., The pines of Mexico, Publ. Arnold Arb. 1: 3-4. 1909 (reprinted 1961) ("... there is, in the entire list of Roezl's Catalogue, not a single valid species...").