Richard Arnold Dümmer

Richard Arnold Dümmer (1887 a Cape Town - 2 Disamba 1922, a Uganda) ɗan Afirka ta Kudu ne masani ne a fannin ilimin tsirrai  wanda ya tattara a Afirka ta Kudu, Kenya da Uganda.

Dümmer ya yi aiki a cikin lambunan gundumar Cape Town kafin ya shiga Kew a matsayin mai lambu a shekarar 1910. A 1911 ya zama mataimaki ga Farfesa Augustine Henry kuma yana da hannu wajen shirya Elwes da Henry na "The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland" for publication. Dümmer ya yi aiki a cikin herbaria da ɗakunan karatu na Kew, British Museum, Linnaean Society, Cambridge, Oxford da Edinburgh Jami'o'in (Edinburgh Universities). Ya wallafa bayanan haraji akan Agathosma, Eugenia, Bruniaceae, Alepidea, Lotononis, Pleiospora, Combretaceae, Adenandra da Acmadenia.

Kamfanin Kivuvu Rubber Company na Kampala ne ya ɗauke shi aiki a shekara ta 1914, inda ya yi amfani da damar da ya samu wajen tattara furannin furanni da fungi. Ya kuma shirya balaguron balaguro zuwa Dutsen Elgon da Dutsen Longonot. Daga nan Dümmer ya shafe shekara guda a Cape Town yana ganowa da sarrafa tarinsa.

Rayuwarsa da sana’ar sa sun katse sakamakon wani hatsarin babur da ya yi a kan titin Jinji a Kampala. Kyautar Kew Guild na shekara-shekara na "Kyautar Tunawa ta Dümmer" ga ɗalibin da ke gabatar da mafi kyawun tarin tsire-tsire na Biritaniya. Samfuran nasa sun haura 20 000 kuma ana ajiye su a PRE, SAM, NH, BM, E, K, MO, P da US. 

Ana amfani da author abbreviation na Dümmer don nuna wannan mutumin a matsayin marubucin lokacin da aka ambaci sunan botanical.

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