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