Genus Willkommia

For Heinrich Moriz Willkomm (1821–1895), German botanist, explorer, traveller, naturalist. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, obtaining his PhD in 1850, during which time he also collected plants in Portugal and Spain (1844–1845 and 1850–1851). He became professor of botany at the University of Leipzig (1852–1855); professor of natural history at the Forest and Agricultural Academy at Tharandt (1855–1868); professor of forest botany at theUniversity of Tartu, Estonia (1868–1874); and professor of botany at the University of Prague (1874–1892). He was an authority on the Iberian Peninsula flora; the forest flora of Austria, Germany, the Baltic provinces and Russia; and wrote extensively on forest botany, dendrology, pathology and entomology. With Robert Hartig, he is considered co-founder of forest phytopathology. He contributed to The Vegetation of the Earth by Adolf Engler and Oscar (Volume 1) dealing with the Iberian Peninsula.