Moritz Richard (Richard) Schomburgk (1811–91)

German-born botanist. Accompanied his brother, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, as botanist to the British Guiana boundary survey, 1840–4; published an account of the boundary expedition, 1847. After political troubles in Germany, he fled to Australia in 1849. Curator of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, South Australia, from 1865.