Armando Teodoro Hunziker, Argentine botanist (Chacabuco, Buenos Aires Province 29 August 1919 – Cordoba 12 December 2001)
From Swiss descent
Authored over 150 publications
DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA
8 tribes, 3 subfamilies, 5 sub-tribes and 3 sections
Genera
Cuatresia 1977
Darcyanthus 2000
Eriolarynx 2000
Hawkesiophyton 1977
Houssayanthus 1978
Parodiodendron 1969
Plowmania 1986 with Sibils
Schultesianthus 1977
Species, Subspecies & Varieties
74 species and 19 subspecies or varieties
HONORS
Hunzikeria D’Arcy 1976 (Solanaceae)
His brother, Juan Hector Hunziker Landolt, plant cytogeneticist (Buenos Aires 26 August 1925 – Acassuso, Buenos Aires Province 17 March 2003)
Authored over 150 papers
Studied cytologically for the first time over 35 plant species
DESCRIBED
Larrea sect. Bifolium 1972 with Palacios
Elytrigia tilcarensis 1966
HONOURS
Biography included in International Marquis Who’s Who