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Botanical drawings of Lauracae in FUNDus!
24 November 2024, by FDM Webmaster

Photo: UHH
The FUNDus! Collection Portal now presents more than 880 botanical drawings of the Lauraceae family. Commonly known as the laurel or avocado family, it is one of the most common and ecologically important woody plant families in humid tropical and subtropical forests worldwide. The drawings of this species also provide an insight into the art of accurately documenting plant characteristics that are often not so clearly visible in photographs. Most of them were made between 1982 and 1986 by Jens G. Rohwer as part of his dissertation. Prof. Dr. Jens G. Rohwer held a professorship for Botany (Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants) at our university from 2000 to 2024