Christian Friedrich Ecklon (Apenrade 1795–Cape Town 1868) was a Danish botanical collector and apothecary. 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Pinguicula grandiflora Botany is the scientific study of plantlife. ...

Ecklon collected extensively in South Africa. His first visit was in 1823, as first an apothecary's apprentice and then pharmacist, looking for plants with medicinal value. Lack of funding and a deteriorating health forced him to live in poor circumstances, selling bulbs or preparing herbal remedies. Nevertheless, when he returned to Europe in 1828, he had collected an extensive herbarium. During his stay in Hamburg, from 1833 to 1838, he was working on revising this collection. This herbarium would become the basis for the Flora Capensis (1860-1865) by his friend, the Hamburg pharmacist Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812-1881)(in collaboration with the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811-1866). In Botany, a herbarium is a collection of preserved plants or plant parts, mainly in a dried form. ... Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812-1881) was a botanist. ... William Henry Harvey (1811-1866) was an Irish botanist. ...

Ecklon was the author, with Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher who had travelled with him from 1829, of Enumeratio Plantarum Africae Australis Extratropicae (1835-7), a descriptive catalogue of South African plants. He later returned to South Africa, where he died in 1868.

The herbaria of Lehmann and Sonder in the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, give also special reference to the collection of Ecklon and Zeyher.

One of his pupils was Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Freese (1795 ?-1876), a German physician-botanist, who also studied South African plants.

Ecklon named in total, according to IPNI, 1974 different genera or species. The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. ...

The genus Ecklonea - with Ecklon's kelp - Ecklonia biruncinata (= E. radiata) - and Ecklon's Purple Iceplant (Delosperma ecklonis 'Bright Eyes') and Ecklon's Everlasting (Helichrysum ecklonis) were named in his honour. Delosperma is a genus of around 100 species of succulent plants in the family Aizoaceae. ...

References This is a list of botanists by their author abbreviation, including that established by Brummitt & Powell (1992), designed for citation in the botanical names they have published. ... In botanical nomenclature, author citation refers to the person (or team) who valid published the name, i. ... A botanical name is a formal name conforming to the ICBN. As with its zoological and bacterial equivalents it may also be called a scientific name. Botanical names may be in one part (genus and above), two parts (species) or three parts (below the rank of species). ...

• William H. Harvey, Otto Wilhelm Sonder, Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (Editor} - Flora Capensis:Being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal (and Neighbouring Territories): Being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal (and Neighbouring Territories); published in January 1900; ISBN 3768206378