Alexander Curt Brade was a German botanist who specialized in the study of the orchids and ferns

Ferns

Ferns can refer to:* Fern, any of many groups of Pteridophyta in the plant kingdom* Ferns, County Wexford, a small historic town in north County Wexford, Ireland* The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns* The Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin...

 of Brazil. Brade also realized an important and early series of collections of the flora of Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

 between 1908 and 1910 with his brother Alfred, who lived in San Jose

San José, Costa Rica

San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Located in the Central Valley, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major transportation hub of this Central American nation.Founded in 1738 by order of Cabildo de León, San...

 and owned a horticultural business in Europe.

Eponymy

• Bradea
  Bradea
  Bradea is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was descripted by Paul Carpenter Standley in 1932 and is named after the German botanist Alexander Curt Brade...
  
  Standl.
  Paul Carpenter Standley
  Paul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
  
  , a genus in the Rubiaceae
  Rubiaceae
  The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...
  
   family.
• Zygostates bradei (Schltr.) Garay, an orchid species.

Selective publications

• Brade, A. C. " Herbarium Costaricense"