> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 500](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333639) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9464-1) LSID 9464-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76159) QID Q76159 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sellow, \[orig.: Sello\] Friedrich (1789-1831), German gardener and botanical explorer; worked in the Berlin and Paris (1810-1811) botanical gardens and studied botany with Willdenow, Desfontaines and A.L. de Jussieu as well as in London (sponsored by A. v. Humboldt 1811-1813); from 1814 in Brazil, collecting widely from 1815-1817 with Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied; with Ignaz Franz Werner von Olfers \[1793-1871\] in 1819; continued to collect 1819-1831 in Brazil and Uruguay. **Abbreviated name**: *Sellow* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sellow*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]] (10.000 mainly destroyed; duplicates extant; see Urban p. 396-397); further material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection HAL|HAL]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LISU|LISU]], [[Collection LZ|LZ]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MW|MW]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection POM|POM]], [[Collection R|R]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection SGO|SGO]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection VT|VT]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]], [[Collection WU|WU]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 325; Backer 516; Barnhart 3: 259 (b. 12 Mar 1789, d. Sep 1831); BM 4: 1897; Frank 3 (Anh.): 96; IH 1 (ed. 6): 364, (ed. 7): 342; Lasègue p. 225, 303, 327, 334, 476, 505; PR 5902, ed. 1: 6597; TL-1/798; Urban-Berl. p. 269, 282, 291, 313, 396-397; Zander ed. 10, p. 716, ed. 11, p. 816. #### Biofile - Arechevaleta, J., Fl. Uruguaya 2: xxviii. 1903 (coll. Uruguay). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 450. 1880 (coll.). - Chamisso, A. von, Und lassen gelten was ich beobachtet habe, ed. R. Schneebeli-Graf; Berlin 1983, p. 268, 286, 306 (plants by S. described in Linnaea). - Herter, W., Bot. Jahrb. 74(1): 119-149. 1945 (analysis of itineraries, identification of localities). - Herter, W.G. & B. Rambo, Nas pegadas dos naturalistas Sellow e Saint-Hilaire. Itinera Sellowio-Hilariana. Basilea (Basel) 1953, 100 p. (itin.). - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 467. 1864. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 658. 1985. - Miller, H.S., Taxon 19: 541. 1970 (Lambert holdings of Sellow material). - Papavero, N., Essays hist. neotrop. dipterol. 1: 56-60, 69-80, 99-101, 215. 1971, 2: 218. 1973. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 397-398. 1975 (coll.). - Schmid, G., Carus, C.G. & C.F.R. von Martius, Eine Altersfreundschaft in Briefen 126. 1939 (*Svitramia* Chamisso, eponym for C.F.P. von Martius, based on a Sellow plant); Chamisso als Naturforscher 172 \[index\]. 1942. - Souza Sobrinho, R.J. de, Insula 8: 15. 1976. - Stieber, M.T., Huntia 3(2): 125. 1979 (mentioned in A. Chase mss.). - Stresemann, E., Zool. Jahrb. (Syst.) 77: 401-425. 1948 (biogr., coll.). - Urban, I., Bot. Jahrb. 17: 177-198. 1893 (extensive biography; itin., listing of collections), Fl. bras. 1(1): 105-111. 1906 (detailed itineraries), Chileans 8(30): 137-140. 1975 (English transl.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 3: 332. 1937. - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. gott. 155. 1982. #### Note Sellow's original family name was Sello; he adopted the spelling Sellow only after his arrival in Brazil (1814). A cousin of Sellow, Hermann Ludwig Sello was head-gardener in Sans-Souci nr Potsdam (1800-1876). The family dropped the spelling Sellow and S.'s other cousin J. Hanstein crossed out the letter "w" on many labels. #### Travels 1, Rio de Janeiro, 1814-1815 (ca. 1000 nos.). 2, Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo, Bahia, 1815-1818 (ca. 1800 nos.). 3, Minas Geraës, São Paulo, 1818-1820, Rio de Janeiro 1820-1821 (ca. 2500 nos.). 4, Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul, S. Catharina, Parana, São Paulo 1821-1829 (6019 nos.). 5, São Paulo, Minas Geraes 1829-1831 (ca. 1450 nos.). For detailed itineraries see W.G. Herter & B. Rambo (1953). #### Eponymy (genera): *Selloa* K.P.J. Sprengel (1819, *nom. rej.*); *Selloa* Humboldt, Bonpland et Kunth (1820, *nom. cons.*); *Sellocharis* Taubert (1889); *Sellowia* Roth ex J.J. Roemer et J.A. Schultes (1819-1820); (journal): *Sellowia*, Anais Botânicos do Herbário "Barbosa Rodrigues", Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Vol. 6-x, 1954-x.