Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser

Willibald S.J.G. von Besser

Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (1784–1842), Austrian-born botanist and naturalist, who lived and worked in the territory of Halychyna, Western Ukraine. He initiated a large herbarium, which is now part of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

IPNI standard form: Besser (outdated: Bess.)

Taxon names authored

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• 31 taxon names authored by Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser

Publications

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• Primitiae Florae Galiciae Austriacae Utriusque (1809)
• Besser, W.S.J.G. 1821–1822. Enumeratio Plantarum hucusque in Volhynia, Podolia, gub. Kiioviensi, Bessarabiia Cis-Tyraica et Circa Odessam Collectarum, Simul cum Observationibus in Primitas Florae Galiciae Austriacae. 111 pp. Wilna BHL Reference page. 
• Apercu de la geographie botanique de Volhynie et de Podolie (1823)

Eponyms

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• 12 eponyms of Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser

External links

• Information about the herbarium collections by W. Besser at the National Herbarium of Ukraine.
• Enumeratio plantarum hucusque in Volhynia, Podolia, Gub. Kiioviensi...

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