> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 389](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068631) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4319-1) LSID 4319-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67873) QID Q67873 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Isert, Paul Erdmann (1756-1789), German explorer and colonial administrator in the Danish possessions in Guinea (1783-1786) and the West Indies (1786-1787). **Abbreviated name**: *Isert* \[standard form in IPNI: *Isert*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection C|C]] (microfiche Isert & Thonning herb. IDC 2203); duplicates at [[Collection B|B]]-Willd., [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection S|S]]. The [[Collection LZ|LZ]] set is no longer extant. *Ref*.: Urban, I., Symb. ant. 1: 84. 1896; 3: 68. 1902. - Junghans, Bot. Tidsskr. 57: 310-355. 1961, 58: 82-122. 1962 (enum. material at C). - Hepper, F. N. and F. Neate, Pl. coll. W. Afr. 41. 1971. - Hepper, F. N., The West African herbaria of Isert & Thonning Kew 1976, 227 p. (full review of collections as on IDC microfiche). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 233; BM 2: 911; Dryander 1: 164, 2: 122, 3: 290; GR p. 22, cat. p. 65; IH 2: 302; Kew 3: 122; Langman p. 388; Lasègue p. 339, 345, 443, 504; PR (alph.) (ed. 1: 4962); Rehder 3: 266; Ùrban-Berl. p. 361, 414. - Christensen, C, Danske bot. Hist. 1: 117. 1924, 2: 105. 1924. - Eriksson, G., Bot. hist. Sverige 262. 1969. - Isert, P. E., Index plantarum quas in regionibus Guineae... collegit P. E. Isert (mss. at C, see Warming 1880 and Kiaerskou 1900). - Kiaerskou, Bot. Tidsskr. 23: 41. 1900. - Rydberg, P. A., Augustana Coll. Libr. Publ. 5: 20. 1907. - Vallot, Bull. Soc. bot. France 29: 181-182. 1882. - Warming, E., Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 79. 1880. #### Handwriting Hepper, F. N., The West African herbaria of Isert and Thonning, Kew, 1976, *pl. 2.*; see also Bot. Tidsskr. 57: 312. 1961. #### Eponymy *Isertia* Schreber (1789). ### Publications ##### n.3195. Reise nach Guinea **Title** Paul Erdmann Isert's,... *Reise nach Guinea* und den Caribäischen Inseln in Columbien, in Briefen an seine Freunde beschrieben... Kopenhagen (Gedruckt bey J. F. Morthorst,...) 1788. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Reise Guinea*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1788 (p. viii: Dec 1787), p. \[i-xvi\], \[1\]-376, \[i\]-lxx, \[1-6, ind.\], \[1, note, 1, err.\], *1 pl*. (uncol. copp.). *Copy*: MICH. *Dutch translation*: Dordrecht 1790 (n.v.).