• 1921–1998
• American botanist
• Standard abbreviation: Wurdack

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 32 taxon names authored by John Julius Wurdack

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Wurdack, J.J. 1953. A revision of the genus Brachyotum (Tibouchineae-Melastomaceae). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 8: 343–407. BHL Reference page. 

• Maguire, B., Wurdack, J.J. & collaborators. 1961. The botany of the Guayana Highland – Part IV (2). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 10(4): 1–87. BHL Reference page. 

• Wurdack, J.J. 1971. Geographic errors in Bonpland collections of Melastomataceae. Taxon 20: 591–593. DOI: 10.2307/1218260 JSTOR Reference page. 

• Wurdack, J.J. 1973. Melastomataceae. In Lasser (ed.), Flora de Venezuela, Vol. VIII(1&2). 819 pp. Instituto Botánico, Dirección de Recursos Naturales Renovables, Ministerio de Agricultura y Cría, Caracas. Reference page. 

• Wurdack, J.J. 1980. 138. Melastomataceae. In Harling, G. & Sparre, B. (eds.), Flora of Ecuador, No. 13: 1–406. University of Göteborg & Riksmuseum, Stockholm. ISBN 91-546-0281-5. Reference page. 

• Wurdack, J.J., Morley, T. & Renner, S. 1993. 99. Melastomataceae. In Görts-van Rijn, A.R.A. (ed.), Flora of the Guianas, Series A: Phanerogams, Fascicle 13. 425 pp. Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, ISBN 3-87429-343-2. Reference page. 

• Almeda, F., Berry, P.E., Freire-Fierro, A., Gröger, A., Holst, B.K., Luckana, N.G., Michelangeli, F.A., Morley, T., Penney, D., Renner, S.S., Robinson, O.R., Wurdack, J.J. (†) & Yatskievych, K. 2007. Melastomataceae. In Funk, V., Hollowell, T., Berry, P., Kelloff, C. & Alexander, S.N., Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 397–417. BHL Reference page.