João Geraldo Kuhlmann

Who was João Geraldo Kuhlmann?

João Geraldo Kuhlmann was a Brazilian botanist.

Kuhlmann was a specialist on Taxonomy of Angiosperms. He was a great collector of herborized material and notable connoisseur of the Brazilian Flora, influencing a large number of researchers in this area of the knowledge in Brazil, for example William Rodrigues. He published about eighty works, describing new genera, and species. He also erected two families. He put Peridiscus in a family by itself in 1950. Peridiscaceae has since been expanded to include Medusandra,Soyauxia, and Whittonia. He also put Duckeodendron into its own family, Duckeodendraceae, but this, and other segregates of Solanaceae are no longer recognized as separate families by APG. In 1944 he became the director of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, exerting this function up to 1951.

J. G. Kuhlmann created the Botanical Society of Brazil.