Ferdinand Albin Pax was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 botanist and entomologist. He specialised in Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

, Diptera

Diptera

Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...

, as well as in spermatophyte

Spermatophyte

The spermatophytes comprise those plants that produce seeds. They are a subset of the embryophytes or land plants...

s, describing several species.

Paxwas was born 26 July 1858 in Dvůr Králové nad Labem

Dvur Králové nad Labem

Dvůr Králové nad Labem river valley.Dvůr Králové was first mentioned in 1270. It was a dowry town, owned by the King's wife and responsible for her expenses when her husband died. Today, it is a center of the textile and machinery industries....

, in what was then known as Bohemia

Bohemia

Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...

. He became a professor of botany

Botany

Botany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...

 and zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

 at the Wrocław University of Technology, and died on 1 March 1942 in Wroclaw

Wroclaw

Wrocław , situated on the River Oder , is the main city of southwestern Poland.Wrocław was the historical capital of Silesia and is today the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. Over the centuries, the city has been part of either Poland, Bohemia, Austria, Prussia, or Germany, but since 1945...

, which at the time was part of Prussia

Prussia

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.

Taxa

Plant taxa that have something to do with Pax include:

Acalypha

Acalypha

Acalypha is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It is the sole genus of the subtribe Acalyphinae. With 450 to 500 species of herbs and shrubs, the genus is only behind Euphorbia, Croton and Phyllanthus in term of Malpighiales diversity...

, Acidoton

Acidoton

Acidoton is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 6 species found in the West Indies, Central America, and northern tropical South America.-Synonyms:*Durandeeldia Kuntze*Gitara Pax & K.Hoffm....

, Adenochlaena

Adenochlaena

Adenochlaena is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae.-Synonyms:*Centrostylis Baill.*Niedenzua Pax...

, Annesijoa novoguineensis

Annesijoa novoguineensis

Annesijoa novoguineensis is a plant species of the family Euphorbiaceae and the sole species of the genus Annesijoa. It is uniquely found in New Guinea....

, Argomuellera

Argomuellera

Argomuellera is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae.-Synonyms:*Neopycnocoma Pax*Wetriaria Pax...

, Blachia

Blachia

Blachia is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 12 species, found from India to Central Malesia.-Synonyms:*Deonia Pierre ex Pax...

, Cephalocrotonopsis

Cephalocrotonopsis

Cephalocrotonopsis is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae....

, Chonocentrum

Chonocentrum

Chonocentrum is a genus of the family Phyllanthaceae. The genus is still not well understood; W. John Hayden has observed that the plant seems have been collected just once, in upper Rio Negro of Brazil in the 1850s, and suggests that it has been misplaced taxonomically.- References :* Hayden, W....

, Cladogynos orientalis

Cladogynos orientalis

Cladogynos orientalis is a species of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae, in the monotypic genus Cladogynos. It is found in Southeast Asia, Malesia.-See also:*Adenogynum Rchb.f. & Zoll.*Baprea Pierre ex Pax & K.Hoffm....

, Cleistanthus

Cleistanthus

Cleistanthus is a plant genus of the family Phyllanthaceae. The genus comprises 140 species, found from Africa to the Pacific Islands. Cleistanthus collinus is known for being toxic and frequently used for homicidal or suicidal purposes.-Synonymy:...

, Conceveiba

Conceveiba

Conceveiba is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae.-Synonyms:*Conceveibastrum Pax & K.Hoffm.*Conceveibum A.Rich. ex A.Juss.*Veconcibea Pax & K.Hoffm....

, Crotonogynopsis

Crotonogynopsis

Crotonogynopsis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It seems to comprise 2 species found in Africa....

, Deuteromallotus

Deuteromallotus

Deuteromallotus is a Malagasy genus of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. The genus has 2 species....

, Discoclaoxylon

Discoclaoxylon

Discoclaoxylon is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae....

, Emblingiaceae, Erythrococca

Erythrococca

Erythrococca is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises about 50 species, most of which are native to Africa, with 4 species in Southern Africa.-Synonyms:*Athroandra Pax & K.Hoffm.*Autrandra Pierre ex Prain...

, Haematostemon

Haematostemon

Haematostemon is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae....

, Jatropha

Jatropha

Jatropha is a genus of approximately 175 succulent plants, shrubs and trees , from the family Euphorbiaceae. The name is derived from the Greek words ἰατρός , meaning "physician," and τροφή , meaning "nutrition," hence the common name physic nut. Mature plants produce separate male and female...

, Lingelsheimia

Lingelsheimia

Lingelsheimia is a plant genus of the family Putranjivaceae.-Synonymy:The genus is equally known as:*Aerisilvaea Radcl.-Sm.*Danguyodrypetes LeandriSpecies include:*Lingelsheimia anitrata*Lingelsheimia longipedicellata...

, Mareyopsis

Mareyopsis

Mareyopsis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae....

, Mildbraedia

Mildbraedia

Mildbraedia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae.-Synonyms:This genus is also known as:*Neojatropha Pax*Plesiatropha Pierre ex Hutch....

, Monadenium, Necepsia

Necepsia

Necepsia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae.-Synonyms:*Neopalissya Pax*Palissya Baill....

, Neoscortechinia

Neoscortechinia

Neoscortechinia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. Up to date, 6 species are known from this genus, all of which are endemic to Malesia.-Synonyms:*Alcinaeanthus Merr.*Scortechinia Hook.f....

, Neotrewia cumingii

Neotrewia cumingii

Neotrewia cumingii is a species of the spurge family and the sole species of the genus Neotrewia. It is found in Southeast Asia. It is known locally by the name apanang....

, Octospermum pleiogynum

Octospermum pleiogynum

Octospermum pleiogynum is a species of the spurge family and the sole species of the genus Octospermum. It is found in New Guinea....

, Pachystylidium hirsutum

Pachystylidium hirsutum

Pachystylidium hirsutum is a species of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. The species is found in peninsular India, Thailand, Indochina, the Philippines and Java....

, Petalodiscus

Petalodiscus

Petalodiscus is a genus of the family Phyllanthaceae. The genus is sometimes included in Savia....

, Plukenetia

Plukenetia

Plukenetia is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 15 species, found from Africa to Malesia.-Synonyms:*Accia A.St.-Hil.*Angostylidium Pax & K.Hoffm.*Apopandra Pax & K.Hoffm.*Botryanthe Klotzsch...

, Pseudagrostistachys

Pseudagrostistachys

Pseudagrostistachys is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae.-Synonyms:*Heterocalyx Gagnep.*Sarcoclinium Wight...

, Pseudolachnostylis maprouneifolia

Pseudolachnostylis maprouneifolia

Pseudolachnostylis maprouneifolia is a species of plant under the family Phyllanthaceae and the sole species comprised in the genus Pseudolachnostylis. It is native to Africa and has several varieties. Its common name is kudu berry, though the term also applies for Cassine aethiopica....

, Ptychopyxis

Ptychopyxis

Ptychopyxis is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 13 species, found from Thailand to West Malesia, and Eastern New Guinea.-Synonym:This genus is also known as:*Clarorivinia Pax & K.Hoffm....

, Romanoa

Romanoa (plant)

Romanoa is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae.-Synonyms:*Anabaena A.Juss.*Anabaenella Pax & K.Hoffm....

, Sphaerostylis

Sphaerostylis

Sphaerostylis is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 8 species, found in tropical East Africa, Madagascar and western Malesia. Some members have stinging hairs.-Taxonomy note:...

, Tetraplandra

Tetraplandra

Tetraplandra is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae.-Synonym:*Dendrobryon Klotzsch ex Pax & K.Hoffm....

, Thecacoris

Thecacoris

Thecacoris is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Phyllanthaceae.-Synonyms:*Baccaureopsis Pax*Cyathogyne Müll.Arg.*Henribaillonia Kuntze...

, Zimmermannia

Zimmermannia

Zimmermannia is a genus of plant under the family Phyllanthaceae. The seven species appear similar, but careful examination of the polen of each has shown that they are distinct species....

Animal taxa described by Pax include Parnassius apollo L. ssp. sztrecsnoensis Pax, 1915.

External links

• Index of Botanists - Pax, Ferdinand Albin from the Harvard University Herbaria
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