Genus Kotschya
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For Georg Theodor Kotschy (1813–1866), Austrian botanist who collected plants in North Africa and western Asia and discovered hundreds of new species. It is estimated he collected over 300 000 specimens. Over the period 1835–1862 he took part in numerous expeditions to Egypt, Sudan, Cyprus, southern Iran and Zagros mountains, northern Tehran, southern Turkey, Palestine, Lebanon, Kurdistan, and northern Syria, during which time he became an assistant (1847) and then curator (1852) of the herbarium of the Vienna Natural History Museum. Among his works are Abbildungen und Beschreibungen Neuer und Seltener Thiere und Pflanzen, in Syrien und im Westlichen Taurus Gesammelt (Illustrations and Descriptions of New and Rare Animals and Plants, in Syria and Western Turkey) (1843), Überblick der Vegetation Mexico (An Overview of Mexico’s Vegetation) (1852) and Coniferen des Cilicischen Taurus (Conifers of the Cilician Taurus) (1855) with Franz Antoine, and many others.