Johann Otto Boeckeler (12 August 18035 March 1899) was a German apothecary-

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

of Oldenburg. He specialized in the plant family

Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus '' Carex'' ...

( sedges), of which, he was the

binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bo ...

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 Baron Karl Klaus (Carl Claus) von der Decken (born 8 August 1833 in Kotzen, Brandenburg, Germany; died 2 October 1865 near Bardera, Somalia) was a German explorer of eastern Africa and the first European to attempt to climb Mount Kiliman ...

'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.WorldCat Identities
(publications)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boeckeler, Johann Otto 19th-century German botanists 1803 births 1899 deaths