Eichler, August Wilhelm

Eichler, August Wilhelm ou´go͝ost vĭl´hĕlm īkh´lər [key], 1839–87, German botanist. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a system of plant classification which, after later work on it by Adolf Engler, was widely adopted by European botanists. He wrote a syllabus of pharmaceutical botany.