> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 148](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068390) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3809-1) LSID 3809-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15989569) QID Q15989569 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Heller, Franz Xaver (1775-1840), German botanist; Dr. med. Würzburg 1800; from 1803 extra-ordinary, from 1805 regular professor of botany at Würzburg University. **Abbreviated name**: *F. Heller* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.Heller*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection WB|WB]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 153; BM 2: 818; Hortus 3: 1195 ("Heller"); IH 2: 267; Kew 2: 638; PR 3944-3946 (ed. 1: 4332-4334); Rehder 5: 380; Tucker 1: 332. - Anon., Bot. Not. 1841: 240. - Steier, Mitt. bayer. bot. Ges. 3(9): 195-206. 1915 (major study, also on his *Fl. wirceb.*). #### Eponymy *Helleria* C. G. D. Nees & C. F. P. Martius (1824, also dedicated to his brother Georg Heller, student of the flora of Würzburg). *Note: Helleriella* A. D. Hawkes (1966), and *Hellerorchis* A. D. Hawkes (1959) are dedicated to A. H. Heller, orchidologist, working in Nicaragua (1956-1966). ### Publications ##### n.2619. Graminum in magno-ducatu wirceburgensi **Title** *Graminum in magno-ducatu wirceburgensi* tam sponte *crescentium*, quam cultorum enumeratio systematica. In usum auditorum suorum scripsit Dr. F. Xav. Heller,... Wirceburgi \[Würzburg\] (apud Josephum Stahel) 1809. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gram. wirceb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1809 (p. \[iv\]: 19 Mai 1809), p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-54, \[1-2, index\]. *Copy*: NY. ##### n.2620. Flora wirceburgensis **Title** *Flora wirceburgensis* sive plantarum in magno-ducatu wirceburgensi indigenarum enumeratio systematica cum earum characteribus generum, specierum differentiis, locis natalibus et vitae duratione, breviusque descriptionibus in usum tironum dilucidata... Wirceburgi \[Würzburg\] (apud Josephum Stahel) 1810-1815, 2 parts and suppl. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. wirceb.* **Notes** *Pars 1*: 1810, p. \[i\]-xlviii, \[1\]-586, \[index, 1-35\]. *Pars 2*: Jan-Apr 1811, p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-450, \[index, 1-31\]. *Copies*: B (pars 1), BR, G, M, NY; IDC 916. *Supplementum*: 1815 (before Dec, rev. A.L.Z.), p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-86, \[index, 1-5\]. *Copies*: G, Regensburg. – "*Supplementum florae wirceburgensis* continens plantarum genera quaedam atque species in magno-ducatu wirceburgensi recenter detecta, nec non observationes nonnullas circa plantas indigenas earumque loca natalia. Quod patriae florae cultoribus offert Dr. Franc. Xav. Heller..."