Willibald S.J.G. von Besser

Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (7 July 1784 — 11 October 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IPNI standard form: Besser (outdated: Bess.)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

(List may be incomplete)

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

plus:

• Aconitum lycoctonum subsp. lasiostomum (Rchb. ex Besser) K.Warncke
• Allium volhynicum Besser
• Carlina onopordifolia Besser еx Szafer et al.
• Euphorbia volhynica Besser
• Pedicularis exaltata Besser
• Роа versicolor Besser
• Salvia cremenecensis Besser
• Senecio besseranus Minder.
• Schivereckia podolica (Besser) Andrz.
• Scutellaria verna Besser

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Primitiae Florae Galiciae Austriacae Utriusque (1809)
• Enumeratio plantarum hucusque in Volhynia, Podolia, Gub. Kiioviensi… (1822)
• Apercu de la geographie botanique de Volhynie et de Podolie (1823)

External links

• Information about the herbarium collections by W. Besser at the National Herbarium of Ukraine.
• Enumeratio plantarum hucusque in Volhynia, Podolia, Gub. Kiioviensi...
• Apercu de la geographie botanique de Volhynie et de Podolie
• IPNI. List of taxons named by Besser.