August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel (1775, Ernsbach near Öhringen – 1814, Wertheim am Main) was a German physician and botanist.
He was a student at the University of Jena, earning his medical doctorate in 1797. Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications Later, he worked as a physician in the city of Wertheim am Main.Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - W Department of Systematic Botany
He described a number of plant species,IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Wibel and is the taxonomic authority of the genus Sciophila (family Liliaceae).Index Nominum Genericorum database Sciophila The fern genus Wibelia (family Davalliaceae) was named in his honor by Johann Jakob Bernhardi.CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z by Umberto Quattrocchi
Principal works Primitiae florae Werthemensis, 1799. Beyträge zur Beförderung der Pflanzenkunde: Ersten Bandes erste Abtheilung, 1800 - Contributions to the advancement of botany.Google Search (publications)
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