Gustav Wilhelm Körber

Gustav Wilhelm Körber (1817–1885), lichenologist, professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. Körber made contributions to the systematics of crustose genera of lichens using microscopical features (e.g. Lecidella, Porpidia, Pyrrhospora).

IPNI standard form: Körb.

Taxon names authored

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• 22 taxon names authored by Gustav Wilhelm Körber

Publications

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• Körber, G.W. 1848. Grundriss der Kryptogamen-Kunde. Zur Orientirung beim Studium der kryptogamischen Pflanzen, sowie zum Gebrauch bei seinen Vorlesungen. [i]-viii, [1]–203, [204]. Breslau: Verlag von Eduard Trewendt. BHL ZOBODATReference page. 
• Körber, G.W. 1854–1855. Systema lichenum germaniae
• Körber, G.W. 1859–1865. Parerga lichenologica
• Körber, G.W. 1890. De gonidiis lichenum

Körber's Herbarium

• Liška, J. 2013. The significance of Körber's “Typenherbar”, with an explanation of the locality abbreviations on his labels. The Lichenologist 45(1): 5–33. (doi:10.1017/S0024282912000552).