Anton Heimerl

Anton Heimerl (15 February 1857, Budapest - 4 March 1943, Wien) was an Austrian botanist.

Heimerl specialized in research of the plant family Nyctaginaceae,^[1][2] and was the binomial authority of many botanical species.^[3] He was author of the sections on Nyctaginaceae, Phytolaccaceae and Achatocarpaceae in Engler & Prantl's "Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien" (Volume 16, 1934).^[4][5][6]

In 1903 the genus Heimerlia was named after him by Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel, and in 1941 Carl Skottsberg named the genus Heimerliodendron in his honor.^[7][8]

Selected writings

• • In English:
• "Two new species of Abronia", 1910
• "Nyctaginaceae of southeastern Polynesia and other Pacific islands", 1937
  • In German:
• Die niederösterreichischen Ascoboleen, 1889
• Monographie der Nyctaginaceen. I. Bougainvillea, Phaeoptilum, Colignonia, 1900
• Flora von Brixen a. E.., 1911
• Schulflora fur Österreich und die angrenzenden Gebiete der Alpen- und Sudetenländer sowie des Küstenland südlich bis Triest, 1923.^[9]