João Geraldo Kuhlmann

João Geraldo Kuhlmann (1882 Blumenau, Santa Catarina -1958 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian botanist.

Kuhlmann was a specialist on Taxonomy of Angiosperms. He was a great collector of herborized material (your collection was gathered at a museum - Botanical Museum Kuhlmann, created in 1960) and notable connoisseur of the Brazilian Flora, influencing a large number of researchers in this area of the knowledge in Brazil, for example William Rodrigues. He published about eighty works, describing new genera, species and even Families (like Peridiscaceae).

In 1944 he became the director of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, exerting this function up to 1951.

The genera Kuhlmannia J.C.Gomes, synonym of Pleonotoma and Kuhlmaniella Barroso, synonym of Dicranostyles are named in his honour.

Some works

• Template:Pt icon Kuhlmann, J. G. & A. J. Sampaio (1928): Clinostemon, novo Gênero de Lauráceas da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 4 (2):57-59. (Clinostemon, new genus of Lauraceae from Amazonia).
• Template:Pt icon Kuhlmann, J. G. Arquivos do Serviço Florestal 3: 4. 1950 (paper which he described the new family Peridiscaceae).