Johann Otto Boeckeler (12 August 18035 March 1899) was a German apothecary-botanist of Oldenburg. He specialized in the plant family Cyperaceae (sedges),A California Flora: And Supplement, Volumes 1-2 by Philip Alexander Munz of which, he was the binomial authority of many species.IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Boeckeler.
He is commemorated with the genus Boeckeleria and the species Bulbostylis boeckeleriana.The Eponym Dictionary of Southern African Plants Plant Names A-BThe Plant List Bulbostylis boeckeleriana (Schweinf.) Beetle
Publications Botanik; edited with Paul Friedrich August Ascherson and others (1879), part of Karl Klaus von der Decken's "Reisen in Ost-Afrika", etc. Bd. 3. Abt. 3.WorldCat Title Botanik. Bearbeitet von P. Ascherson, O. Böcheler, etc. Die Cyperaceen des Königlichen Herbariums zu Berlin, Linnaea; Vol. XXXV - XLI, (1900) - Cyperaceae of the Royal Herbariums of Berlin.WorldCat Identities (publications)
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