Wilhelm Mönkemeyer

Wilhelm Mönkemeyer (24 December 1862, Stadtoldendorf – 1 March 1938, Leipzig) was a German bryologist.

In 1883–85 he worked as a botanical collector in tropical Africa (present-day Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Nigeria).[1][2] In 1887 he began work as an Obergehilfe (upper assistant) at the botanical garden of Göttingen and from 1889 to 1928 served as a garden inspector at the botanical garden in Leipzig.[3]

His moss herbarium was sold to the Botanical Institute in Hamburg.[3] Taxa with the specific epithet of moenkemeyeri commemorate his name, an example being Riccia moenkemeyeri.[4]

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