Johann Otto Boeckeler
German apothecary-botanist (1803–1899)
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Johann Otto Boeckeler (12 August 1803 – 5 March 1899) was a German apothecary-botanist of Oldenburg. He specialized in the plant family Cyperaceae (sedges),[1] of which, he was the binomial authority of many species.[2]
He is commemorated with the genus Boeckeleria and the species Bulbostylis boeckeleriana.[3][4]
Publications
- Botanik; edited with Paul Friedrich August Ascherson and others (1879), part of Karl Klaus von der Decken's "Reisen in Ost-Afrika", etc. Bd. 3. Abt. 3.[5]
- Die Cyperaceen des Königlichen Herbariums zu Berlin, Linnaea; Vol. XXXV - XLI, (1900) - Cyperaceae of the Royal Herbariums of Berlin.[6]