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### 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).