Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, a botanist at the University of Halle, through correspondence, via articles published in the journal "Linnaea" and through the exchange of herbarium specimens. Bunge retired as professor in 1867 and was succeeded by Heinrich Moritz Willkomm. He remained in Dorpat until 1881, spending his later years there investigating Estonian flora. Personal life He was the father of physiologist Gustav von Bunge (1844–1920) and of Alexander von Bunge (1851–1930), an explorer and zoologist. His older brother, Friedrich Georg von Bunge (1802–1897), was a legal historian. Bunge died on in Dorpat. Commemoration Taxa Genus Bungea (family Orobanchaceae, formerly a member of the family Scrophulariaceae). Pulsatilla bungeana from genus Pulsatilla Caragana bungei from genus Caragana Chorispora bungeana from genus Chorispora Dracocephalum origanoides bungeanum from species Dracocephalum origanoides Ferula bungeana from genus Ferula Iris bungei from genus Iris Lagochilus bungei from genus Lagochilus Oxytropis bungei from genus Oxytropis Stellaria bungeana from genus Stellaria Ziziphora bungeana from genus Ziziphora Euonymus bungeanus from genus Euonymus Allium bungei from genus Allium. Pinus bungeana from genus Pinus. Fraxinus bungeana from genus Fraxinus Clerodendrum bungei from genus Clerodendrum Catalpa bungei from genus Catalpa. Girgensohnia bungeana from genus Girgensohnia. Places A crater on Mars and a place in New Siberian Island called Bungeland was named after him. Bibliography Flora Altaica; scripsit Carolus Fridericus a Ledebour, adiutoribus Car. Ant. Meyer et Al. a Bunge. Tomus I (1829) Flora Altaica; scripsit Carolus Fridericus a Ledebour, adiutoribus Car. Ant. Meyer et Al. a Bunge. Tomus II (1830) Flora Altaica; scripsit Carolus Fridericus a Ledebour, adiutoribus Car. Ant. Meyer et Al. a Bunge. Tomus III (1831) Flora Altaica; scripsit Carolus Fridericus a Ledebour, adiutoribus Car. Ant. Meyer et Al. a Bunge. Tomus IV (1832) Enumeratio plantarum quas in China boreali collegit Dr. Al. Bunge. Anno 1831. (1832) Plantarum mongolica-chinensium decas fine. (1835) Verzeichniss der im Jahre 1832 im östlichen Theile des Altai-Gebirges gesammelten Pflanzen. Ein Supplement zur Flora Altaica written with Ledebour (1836) Anleitung zum Studium der Botanik, oder Grundriss Dieser Wissenschaft Enthaltend die Organographie, Physiologie, Methodologie, die Pflanzen, Geographie, eine Ubersich der fossilen der pharmaceustischen Botanik und der Geschichte der Botanik written with Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1838) Alexandri Lehmann reliquiae botanicae; sive, Enumeratio plantarum in itinere per deserta Asiae Mediae ab A. Lehmann annis 1839–1842 collectarum. Scripsit Al. Bunge. (1847) Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Flor Russlands und der Steppen Central-Asiens, (1851) – Contribution to the knowledge of