{{Short description|German botanist and pteridologist}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = 8 April 1786 |birth_place = |death_date = 9 December 1830 (aged 44) |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |ethnicity = |field = Botany |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = '''Kaulf.''' |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }}

'''Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss''' (8 April 1786 &ndash; 9 December 1830) was a professor at Halle. He described the pteridophytes collected by Adelbert von Chamisso, and he named the fern ''Cibotium chamissoi'' after him. The genus ''Kaulfussia'' is named for Kaulfuss.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=H6pNAAAAcAAJ&dq=Kaulfuss+Kaulfussia&pg=PT194 The botanic garden; consisting of highly finished representations, etc.] by Benjamin Maund</ref>

In 1816, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Halle, where in 1823, he became a full professor of botany.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8VEUIH15wAYC&pg=PA231 Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen. Hauptbd., Band 1] (short biography in German).</ref>

==Plants Named by Kaulfuss== More than 200 plant names were published by Kaulfuss.<ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Person/1583?tab=names Kaulfuss, Georg Friedrich (names)] Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 01 Feb 2012</ref> These include the genera: *{{txil|Cibotium|Kaulf. 1820}} *''Cochlidium'' {{small|Kaulf. 1820}} *{{txil|Saccoloma|Kaulf. 1820}} *''Balantium'' {{small|Kaulf. 1824}} *{{txil|Sadleria|Kaulf. 1824}}

Plant families named by Kaulfuss include: *Marattiaceae {{au|Kaulf. 1824}} *Cyatheaceae {{au|Kaulf. 1827}}

==Works by Kaulfuss== *Kaulfuss, Georg Friedrich. ''Enumeratio Filicum''. 1824.

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