About Johann Otto Boeckeler
Lived 1803 – 1899 (aged 95). Johann Otto Boeckeler was a German botanist, pharmacist and botanical collector.
Johann Otto Boeckeler (12 August 18035 March 1899) was a German apothecary-botanist of Oldenburg. He specialized in the plant family Cyperaceae (sedges), of which, he was the binomial authority of many species.
He is commemorated with the genus Boeckeleria and the species Bulbostylis boeckeleriana.
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. Die Cyperaceen des Königlichen Herbariums zu Berlin, Linnaea; Vol. XXXV - XLI, (1900) - Cyperaceae of the Royal Herbariums of Berlin.
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Who was Johann Otto Boeckeler?
German botanist (1803-1899)
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Johann Otto Boeckeler was born on 12 August 1803 in Hanover.
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Johann Otto Boeckeler died on 5 March 1899 in Varel.
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Johann Otto Boeckeler was a botanist, pharmacist and botanical collector.
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Johann Otto Boeckeler was German.
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