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(Redirected from M. Roem.) German botanist (1791–1849)

Max Joseph Roemer (1791, Munich – 1849) was a German botanist who worked in Weimar.

Roemer served as Landrichter (country judge) in the Bavarian town of Aub before working as a private scientist in Würzburg. and is the taxonomic authority of the genera Heteromeles, Pyracantha, and Erythrocarpus as well as numerous plant species.

Publications

Roemer, Max Joseph (1845–1847). Familiarum naturalium regni vegetabilis synopses monographicae; seu, Enumeratio omnium plantarum hucusque detectarum secundum ordines naturales, genera et species digestarum, additis diagnosibus, synonymis, novarumque vel minus cognitarum descriptionibus (4 fascicles). Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir.

The standard author abbreviation M.Roem. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

References

Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Roemer
International Plant Names Index. M.Roem.

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