ABSTRACT:

Heinrich Wilhelm Schott is well known as the first important monographer of the family of Araceae who also had proposed a great number of generic names still in use in this family. In numerous publications ranging from short notes covering less than one page to magnificently illustrated volumes in quarto and the voluminous Prodromus systematis Aroidearum he contributed more to our knowledge of aroids than any other botanist with perhaps the exception of A. Engler.