August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel
August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel (1775, Ernsbach near Öhringen – 1814, Wertheim am Main) was a German physician and botanist.
He was a student at the University of Jena, earning his medical doctorate in 1797.[1] Later, he worked as a physician in the city of Wertheim am Main.[2]
He described a number of plant species,[3] and is the taxonomic authority of the genus Sciophila (family Liliaceae).[4] The fern genus Wibelia (family Davalliaceae) was named in his honor by Johann Jakob Bernhardi.[5]
Principal works
[edit]- Primitiae florae Werthemensis, 1799.
- Beyträge zur Beförderung der Pflanzenkunde: Ersten Bandes erste Abtheilung, 1800 - Contributions to the advancement of botany.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - W Department of Systematic Botany
- ^ IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Wibel
- ^ Index Nominum Genericorum database Sciophila
- ^ CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z by Umberto Quattrocchi
- ^ Google Search (publications)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Wibel.
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