> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 185](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264912) of TL-2 Suppl. I
> Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/306-1) LSID 306-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21505375) QID Q21505375
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> [!example] See also [[Ascherson, Ferdinand Moritz|first entry]] for this author
### Author
\* Ascherson, Ferdinand Moritz (1798-1879), German physician and mycologist, father of P.F.A. Ascherson, born in Fürth nr. Nürnberg (Middle Franconia), assisted his father in his jewelry shop; studied medicine in Berlin 1824-1828, practising physician ib. 1829-1879, next to his practice actively carrying on botanical-physiological studies.
**Abbreviated name**: *F. Aschers.* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.Asch.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown, not mentioned by his son (1879).
#### Bibliography and biography
Ainsworth p. 71, 314; Barnhart 1: 81; BM 1: 65; CSP 1: 106 (9 nos.); IF p. 675; LS 1220-1223; PR 264-265, ed. 1: 314-315; Rehder 3: 56; TL-2/1: 72.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 26 (Bibl.): 90. 1879 (brief note; place of birth erroneously given as Nürnberg); J. Bot. 17: 160. 1879 (d.); Magyar Növén. Lapok 3: 46. Feb 1879 (brief. obit.).
- Ascherson, F.M., Arch. Naturgesch. 2: 372. 1836 (described basidium of fungi).
- Ascherson, P.F.A., Bot. Zeit. 37: 207-208. 28 Mar 1879 (obit., b. 29 Mar 1798, d. 19 Feb 1879).
- Trimen, H., ed., J. Bot. 17: 160. 1879.
### Publications
##### n.19.575. Pharmaceutische Botanik
**Title**
*Pharmaceutische Botanik* in Tabellen-Form. Eine kurzgefasste Anleitung zur Kenntniss sämmtlicher, in der fünften Ausgabe der preussischen Pharmakopoe aufgeführten, und vieler andern mit ihnen verwandten Pflanzen. Nebst einer fasslichen Darstellung der offizinellen Pflanzenfamilien nach Jussieu's natürlichem System... Berlin (in der Schüppel'schen Buchhandlung) 1831. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Pharm. Bot.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1831, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-82, \[83-84\], *pl. 1-2.* *Copy*: NY.