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Hermann August Theodor Harms (16 July 1870 – 27 November 1942) was a German taxonomist and botanist.
Harms was born in Berlin. He worked as a botanist at the Botanical Museum in Berlin. He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He died in Berlin, aged 72.
He was longtime editor of Adolf Engler's " Das Pflanzenreich", and was the author of several chapters on various plant families in Engler and Carl Prantl's " Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien", including the chapters on Bromeliaceae (1930) and Nepenthaceae (1936). In the latter he revised the pitcher plant genus Nepenthes, dividing it into three subgenera: Anurosperma, Eunepenthes and Mesonepenthes (see Taxonomy of Nepenthes). Furthermore, he was interested in the genus Passiflora.
The plant genera Harmsia (Schum.), Harmsiella (Briq.), Etimologia dei nomi botanici e micologici Acta Plantarum Harmsiodoxa (in the Brassicaceae family) and Harmsiopanax (in the Araliaceae family) commemorate his name.
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