Genus Hackelochloa

For Eduard Hackel (1850–1926), Bohemian-born Austrian botanist and agrostologist, professor of natural history at the Polytechnical Institute at Vienna (1871–1900), and a world authority on the Poaceae. While he only made one collecting trip – to Spain and Portugal – he was charged with writing up collections of grasses mainly from Japan, Taiwan, New Guinea, Brazil and Argentina. Apart from systematics, Hackel also contributed to the morphology and histology of members of the grass family. He authored many papers and books, including Monographia Festucarum Europaearum (1882), a section on true grasses in Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (1890), Enumeratio Graminum Japoniae (1899) and Plantae Ex Asia Media Fragmentum (1906).