Franz Kohaut

Franz Kohaut (died 1822) was a Czech botanical collector and gardener from Neuhaus, Bohemia.

In 1816–18 he accompanied botanist Franz Wilhelm Sieber (1789–1844) on an expedition and collected together with him plant material for exsiccata-like series in Crete, Egypt and Palestine. Afterwards Kohaut worked for Sieber as a botanical collector in Martinique (1819–21). Specimens from Martinique were later distributed by Sieber as Herbarium florae Martinicae (Plantae insulae Martinica) and Supplement. Kohaut died in 1822 while together with J. Schmidt on an expedition in Senegal. His material from this expedition was distributed by F. Sieber under the title Flora Senegalensis. Specimens collected by F. Kohaut are deposited now in a number of herbaria.

The plant genus "Kohautia" from the family Rubiaceae is named in his honor, as well as the species "Tetrapteris kohauti" Sieber ex Presl (Malpighiaceae) and "Cestrum kohauti" Bercht. & J.Presl (Solanaceae).

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