Anton Heimerl

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Who is Anton Heimerl?

Anton Heimerl was an Austrian botanist.

Heimerl specialized in research of the plant family Nyctaginaceae, and was the binomial authority of many botanical species. He was author of the sections on Nyctaginaceae, Phytolaccaceae and Achatocarpaceae in Engler & Prantl's "Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien".

In 1903 the genus Heimerlia was named after him by Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel, and in 1941 Carl Skottsberg named the genus Heimerliodendron in his honor.

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  • Хаймерль, Антон

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on July 23, 2013

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