Ruecker

Career

Collections

Literature

Ruecker

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

career:

Possibly identical with the Assistant Hunter of that name, who quitted the employ of the German New Guinea Company in 1889.¹

Piper (Rhyncholepis) rückeri K.Schum. was named after him.

collections:

Over 44 nos, collected in former Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (= NE. New Guinea) in the vicinity of Constantinhafen. Probably with the herbarium of the New Guinea Company in Herb. Berl. [B]. The plants were at the disposal of K. Schumann.²

literature:

(1) cf. Nachr. Kais. Wilh. Land 1889, p. 33.
(2) Results Published in ‘Die Flora von Kaiser Wilhelmsland’(Beih.Nachr. Kais. Wilh. Land 1889, p. 1-137; together with the collection Hollrung).

	Career Collections Literature
	Ruecker
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	career: Possibly identical with the Assistant Hunter of that name, who quitted the employ of the German New Guinea Company in 1889.¹ Piper (Rhyncholepis) rückeri K.Schum. was named after him.
	collections: Over 44 nos, collected in former Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (= NE. New Guinea) in the vicinity of Constantinhafen. Probably with the herbarium of the New Guinea Company in Herb. Berl. [B]. The plants were at the disposal of K. Schumann.²
	literature: (1) cf. Nachr. Kais. Wilh. Land 1889, p. 33. (2) Results Published in ‘Die Flora von Kaiser Wilhelmsland’(Beih.Nachr. Kais. Wilh. Land 1889, p. 1-137; together with the collection Hollrung).