Richard Emil Benjamin Sadebeck (20 May 1839 in Breslau – 11 February 1905 in Meran) was a German pteridologist and mycologist. He was an older brother of mineralogist Alexander Sadebeck (1843–1879).

He studied natural sciences at the University of Breslau as a pupil of Heinrich Göppert. From 1865 to 1876 he worked as a schoolteacher in Berlin, and afterwards relocated to Hamburg, where he taught classes at the Johanneum. From 1883 to 1901 he was director of the Hamburg Botanical Museum.[1][2]

In 1893 he described the fungal genus Magnusiella (syn. Taphrina).[3]

Selected works

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  • De Montium Inter Vistritium et Nissam Fluvios Sitorum Flora, 1864.
  • Die Entwicklung des Keimes der Schachtelhalme, 1878 – Development of horsetail shoots.
  • Kritische Untersuchungen über die durch Taphrina-Arten hervorgebrachten Baumkrankheiten, 1890 – Critical studies on tree diseases caused by Taphrina species.
  • Die parasitischen Exoasceen : eine Monographie, 1893 – Parasitic Exoasceae.
  • Filices Camerunianae Dinklageanae, 1896.
  • Hydropteridineae, 1897.
  • Die wichtigeren Nutzpflanzen und deren Erzeugnisse aus den deutschen Colonien, 1897 – The more important crops and their products from the German colonies.
  • Die Kulturgewachse der deutschen Kolonien und ihre Erzeugnisse (1899, chapter 10 by Ernest Friedrich Gilg).[4]

References

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  1. ^ Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, Volume 1 by Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers
  2. ^ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  3. ^ Magnusiella Index Fungorum
  4. ^ Most widely held works by Richard Sadebeck WorldCat Identities Archived 2016-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Sadeb.