Johann Otto Boeckeler Explained

Johann Otto Boeckeler (12 August 18035 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]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rbi4Jx2YR6gC&pg=PA1553 A California Flora: And Supplement, Volumes 1-2
2. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Boeckeler&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI
3. http://www.calflora.net/southafrica/1A-B.html The Eponym Dictionary of Southern African Plants
4. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-222290 The Plant List
5. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/557009843 WorldCat Title
6. http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/np-boeckeler,%20otto WorldCat Identities