''Wimmeria'' is a
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of
shrub
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s to small
tree
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s in the
family
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Celastraceae. It is named after German
botanist
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Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer
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Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (October 30, 1803 – March 12, 1868) was a German botanist and educator who was a native of Breslau.
From 1821 he studied philology and natural sciences at the University of Breslau, and after comple ...
(1803–1868).
Species
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Wimmeria acapulcensis
''Wimmeria'' is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).
Species
:''This list may be incomplete.''
* '' Wimmeria acapulcensis'' Lundell
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Lundell
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Wimmeria acuminata''
L. O. Williams
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Wimmeria bartlettii
''Wimmeria'' is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).
Species
:''This list may be incomplete.''
* ''Wimmeria acapulcensis'' Lundell
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Lundell
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Wimmeria caudata
''Wimmeria'' is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).
Species
:''This list may be incomplete.''
* ''Wimmeria acapulcensis'' Lundell
* ...
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Lundell
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Wimmeria chiapensis''
Lundell
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Wimmeria concolor
''Wimmeria'' is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).
Species
:''This list may be incomplete.''
* '' Wimmeria acapulcensis'' Lundell
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Cham.
Adelbert von Chamisso (; 30 January 178121 August 1838) was a Germans, German poet and botanist, author of ''Peter Schlemihl'', a famous story about a man who sold his shadow. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot ...
& Schltdl.
Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794, Xanten – 12 October 1866, Halle an der Saale, Halle) was a German botanist.
He studied in Berlin, in 1819 becoming curator of the Botanical Garden in Berlin, Royal Herbarium. He was ...
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Wimmeria crenata
''Wimmeria'' is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).
Species
:''This list may be incomplete.''
* ''Wimmeria acapulcensis'' Lundell
* ...
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Liebm.
Frederik Michael Liebmann (10 October 1813 – 29 October 1856) was a Danish botanist. Liebmann studied botany at the University of Copenhagen, although he never obtained a formal qualification. He went on study tours of Germany and Norway before b ...
ex Lundell
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Wimmeria cyclocarpa
''Wimmeria'' is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).
Species
:''This list may be incomplete.''
* ''Wimmeria acapulcensis'' Lundell
* ...
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Radlk.
Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (19 December 1829, in Munich – 16 February 1927, in Munich), was a Bavarian taxonomist and botanist.
Radlkofer became a physician in 1854 and earned a PhD in botany at Jena the following year. He became an asso ...
ex Donn. Sm.
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Wimmeria discolor
''Wimmeria'' is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).
Species
:''This list may be incomplete.''
* ''Wimmeria acapulcensis'' Lundell
* ...
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Cham. & Schltdl.
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Wimmeria guatemalensis
''Wimmeria'' is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).
Species
:''This list may be incomplete.''
* ''Wimmeria acapulcensis'' Lundell
* ...
''
Rose
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Wimmeria integerrima
''Wimmeria'' is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).
Species
:''This list may be incomplete.''
* ''Wimmeria acapulcensis'' Lundell
* ...
''
Turcz.
Nikolai Stepanovich Turczaninow ( ru , Николай Степанович Турчанинов, 1796 in Nikitovka, now in Krasnogvardeysky District, Belgorod Oblast, Russia – 1863 in Kharkov) was a Russian botanist and plant collector who ...
* ''
Wimmeria lambii
''Wimmeria'' is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).
Species
:''This list may be incomplete.''
* ''Wimmeria acapulcensis'' Lundell
* ...
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(Standl. & L. O. Williams) Lundell (synonym ''
Maytenus lambii
''Maytenus'' ''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607 is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. Members of the genus are distributed throughout Central and South America, Southeast Asia, Micronesia and Australasia, the Indi ...
'')
[''Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees'', p. 965]
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Wimmeria lanceolata
''Wimmeria'' is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).
Species
:''This list may be incomplete.''
* ''Wimmeria acapulcensis'' Lundell
* ...
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Rose
* ''
Wimmeria mexicana''
( Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle ...
) Lundell (synonym ''Celastrus mexicanus'')
* ''
Wimmeria microphylla''
Radlk.
* ''
Wimmeria montana''
Lundell
* ''
Wimmeria obtusifolia''
Standl.
* ''
Wimmeria pallida''
Radlk.
* ''
Wimmeria persicifolia''
Radlk.
* ''
Wimmeria pubescens''
Radlk.
* ''
Wimmeria serrulata''
Radlk.
* ''
Wimmeria sternii''
Lundell
See also
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Celastrus''
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Maytenus''
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Sapindus
''Sapindus'' is a genus of about five to twelve species of shrubs and small trees in the lychee family, Sapindaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the world. The genus includes both deciduous and evergreen species. Members of ...
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Zinowiewia''
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External links
''Celastrus mexicanus'' Holotype (Fragment)*
Neotropical Herbarium Specimens*
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Celastrales genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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