Genus Dintera

For Moritz Kurt Dinter (1868–1945), government botanist in South-West Africa (now Namibia), explorer, and plant collector. He studied botany and horticulture at the botanical gardens of Dresden and Strasbourg. Later he took charge of Sir Thomas Hanbury’s La Mortola garden. He then spent six months at Kew Gardens learning English, before leaving for South-West Africa (1897) where he relied on the sale of botanical specimens for his livelihood. His collecting career spanned 38 years and his pressed collection was over 8 400 specimens, excluding large quantities of living plants and seeds, and his wife’s collections, which were never numbered. He authored Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika: Floraforst-und landwirtschaftliche Fragmenta (Leipzig, 1909) and Die vegetabilische Veldkost Deutsch-Südwest-Afrikas (Okahandja, 1914).