> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 206](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120337) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/16055-1) LSID 16055-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8078265) QID Q8078265 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bescherelle, Émil (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Bescherelle, Émile (1828-1903), French administrator and bryologist. **Abbreviated name**: *Besch.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Besch.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (exotic "bryophytes), [[Collection MIN|MIN]] (European bryophytes), [[Collection P|P]] (phanerogams), [[Collection PC|PC]] (bryol. types). For his *Muscinées des environs de Paris* (10 fasc, nos. 1-250, 1861-1866) see Camus 1903; *Mousses du Mt. Cenis*, 21 specimens, at [[Collection FH|FH]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 72. - Camus, Bull. Soc. bot. France 50: 239. 1903. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 177; BM 1: 156, 6: 87-88; Bossert p. 36; CSP 1: 341, 7: 164, 9: 229, 12: 78, 13: 513; Jackson p. 522 \[index\]; Kew 1: 235; KR p. 81; MW p. 43. - Urban, Symb. ant. 1: 11-12. 1898, 5: I. 1908. - Camus, Bull. Soc. bot. France 50: 227-239. 1903 (bibl., portr.) - Holzinger, Bryologist 6: 46. 1903 (brief bibl.) - Poisson, Bull. Soc. bot. France 50: 225-226. 1903. - Cavillier, Boissiera 5: 21. 1941. - Lenley et al., Gat. manuscr. coll. New York Bot. Gard. 29-30. 1973. #### Eponymy *Bescherellia* Duby (1873).