Johann von Boeber (1746-1820), a forgotten collector from St. Petersburg

摘要

A little-known Russian naturalist Johann von Boeber was born on 22 of December 1746 in Weimar (Germany) but he mainly lived in St. Petersburg. He died there on July 15 1820. He was a correspondent of P.S.Pallas and C.L.Willdenow. The genus Boebera Willd. (Compositae) was named in honor of this eminent collector. Boeber's plant specimens were used as types of the new species Artemisia taurica Willd. and A.nutans Willd. An extremely rare plant Cymbaria borysthenica Pall. ex Schlecht. (=Cymbochasma borysthenica (Pall. ex Schlecht.)Klock. et Zoz) was discovered by Boeber near Dnepropetrovsk (formed Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine). Boeber's herbarium from South Russia, Crimea and Ukraine is kept in the Komarov Botanical Institute (LE) and the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin-Dahlem (B-WILLD).