Genus Spetaea
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For Franz Speta (1941– ), Austrian botanist. He studied at botany and zoology at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1972. From 1970, he worked as a research assistant at the Upper Austrian State Museum, first as head of the department of botany and invertebrates, then, in 1985, as deputy director of the museum and, in 1990 and 1991, as its interim director. From 1993–2003, he headed up the biology centre of the National Museum. Speta’s research focus was bulbous plants, especially Hyacinthaceae, with a special interest in Scilla and Ornithogalum. He published about 100 scientific papers and 50 biographical works (mainly of botanists). He was awarded the venia lengendi for systematic botany by the University of Salzburg and, in 1994, was appointed ‘real councillor’.