Anton Heimerl

Anton Heimerl (15 February 1857, Budapest - 4 March 1943, Wien) was an Austrian botanist.

Heimerl specialized in research of the plant family Nyctaginaceae,[1][2] and was the binomial authority of many botanical species.[3] He was author of the sections on Nyctaginaceae, Phytolaccaceae and Achatocarpaceae in Engler & Prantl's "Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien" (Volume 16, 1934).[4][5][6]

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.[7][8]

  1. ^ Smithsonian Contributions to Botany Studies in the Genus Boerhavia L. (Nyctaginaceae), 1-5 F. Raymond Fosberg
  2. ^ The Allioniaceae of Mexico and Central America Volume 13 by Paul Carpenter Standley
  3. ^ IPNI Plant Name Search
  4. ^ Tropicos.org Achatocarpaceae
  5. ^ Efloras.org Phytolaccaceae
  6. ^ Efloras.org Nyctaginaceae
  7. ^ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  8. ^ Index Nominum Genericorum Heimerlia