Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (26 December 1816 in Mühlhausen – 18 June 1853 in Berlin) was a German botanist. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Walp. when citing a botanical name.[1]
He received his education at the Universities of Greifswald and Breslau, earning his habilitation in 1848 at Berlin. He died on 18 June 1853 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.[2]
The plant genus Walpersia (synonym Phyllota) is named after him.[3][4]
Selected publications
edit- Repertorium botanices systematicæ (six volumes, 1842–1847).[5]
- Walpers, Wilhelm Gerhard (1848–1868). Annales botanices systematicae (7 vols.) (in Latin). Leipzig. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
References
edit- ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
- ^ biography of Walpers @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ^ JSTOR Global Plants Walpersia
- ^ GRIN Taxonomy for Plants Walpersia Harv.
- ^ Walpers, Wilhelm Gerhard (1845). Repertorium botanices systematicae (Vol. III ed.). sumtibus Friderici Hofmeister.
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