Biography

Osvaldo Boelcke, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 05 November 1920 – Béccar, Buenos Aires Province 06 June 1990)

DESCRIBED

Genus Lithodraba 1951 (Brassicaceae)

Genus Skottsbergianthus 1984 (Brassicaceae)

At least 12 new plant species

HONORS

Boelckea Rossow 1992 (Plantaginaceae)

His second wife Maevia Noemí Correa, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 14 February 1914 –Buenos Aires 18 April 2005)

Described genus Odontorrhynchus (Orchidaceae) in 1953 and at least 16 new plant species  

HONORS

Maeviella Rossow 1985 (Plantaginaceae)