Noël Martin Joseph de Necker explained

Noël Martin Joseph de Necker
Birth Date:25 December 1730
Birth Place:Lille
Death Place:Mannheim
Author Abbrev Bot:Neck.

Noël Martin Joseph Necker (25 December 1730 – 30 December 1793) was a German physician and botanist.

Career

Necker was the personal physician to the court of the Electoral Palatinate in Mannheim. His botanical was work involved the study of mosses (Bryophyta) on which he wrote several works, and fungi on which he wrote the Traité sur la mycitologie. He is also known for describing the orchid genus Dactylorhiza.

Eponyms

The moss genus Neckera, and its family, the Neckeraceae were named in his honour.

Publications

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