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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. Later, he worked as a physician in the city of Wertheim am Main.

He described a number of plant species, and is the taxonomic authority of the genus Sciophila (family Liliaceae). The fern genus Wibelia (family Davalliaceae) was named in his honor by Johann Jakob Bernhardi.

Principal works

• Primitiae florae Werthemensis, 1799.
• Beyträge zur Beförderung der Pflanzenkunde: Ersten Bandes erste Abtheilung, 1800 - Contributions to the advancement of botany.

References

1. Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
2. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - W Department of Systematic Botany
3. IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Wibel
4. Index Nominum Genericorum database Sciophila
5. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z by Umberto Quattrocchi
6. Google Search (publications)
7. International Plant Names Index.  Wibel.

• 1775 births
• 1814 deaths
• 19th-century German botanists
• University of Jena alumni