Johann Otto Boeckeler

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]

The standard author abbreviation Boeckeler is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[7]

References

^ A California Flora: And Supplement, Volumes 1-2 by Philip Alexander Munz
^ IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Boeckeler.
^ The Eponym Dictionary of Southern African Plants Plant Names A-B
^ The Plant List Bulbostylis boeckeleriana (Schweinf.) Beetle
^ WorldCat Title Botanik. Bearbeitet von P. Ascherson, O. Böcheler, etc.
^ WorldCat Identities (publications)
^ International Plant Names Index. Boeckeler.