Otto Stapf

Otto Stapf was an Austrian botanist.

Stapf trained in Vienna, and moved to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1890. He was the keeper of the herbarium from 1909-1920. In 1927, he was given the Linnean Medal.

Stapf wrote about the Graminae in William Turner Thiselton Dyer's edition of Flora capensis.

When citing a botanical name, he is abbreviated as Stapf.