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### Author
König, Johann Gerhard (1728-1785), Baltic-German pharmacist and physician; 1759-1767 in Denmark; from 1767 India, Siam, Malacca and Ceylon as missionary and plant collector.
**Abbreviated name**: *J. König* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Koenig*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BM|BM]]; dupl. see IH. Letters and manuscript journals, 21 vols., at [[Collection BM|BM]].
*Ref*.: Rendle, A. B., J. Bot. 71: 143-153, 175-187. 1933 (notes on herb.).
- Steinberg, C.,Webbia 32(1): 29. 1977 (material in FI via Vahl and herb. Desfontaines).
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 3: 829; Ainsworth p. 305; Backer p. 305; Barnhart 2: 308; BB p. 177; BM 2: 1014; CSP 16: 373; Dawson p. 509, 941 \[index\]; Desmond p. 365; Dryander 1: 72, 140, 203, 2: 273, 300, 3: 87, 167, 215, 271, 336, 4: 72; Henrey 2: 189; Hortus 3: 1197 ("König, J."); IH 2: 378; Kew 3: 290; KR p. 363; Lasègue p. 573 \[index\]; NI 1622; PR 7547 (ed. 1: 5340); Rehder 5: 465; RS p. 91; SBC p. 124 ("Kon."); SK 1: 288-289; TL-2/1: 1183; Tucker 1: 396; Zander ed. 10, p. 679.
- Boulger, G. S., *in* H. Trimen, Handbook Fl. Ceylon 5: 373. 1900.
- Burkill, I. H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 241 \[index\]. 1965.
- Christensen, C., Den danske Botaniks historia 1: 118-119. 1924, 2: 81-84. 1926 (bibl.).
- Fries, Th. M., Bref och Skrifv. Linné 1(2): 357. 1908, 1(3): 255. 1909, 1(6): 293. 1912.
- Hulth, J. M., Bref och Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 425 \[index\]. 1916; 2(2): 197, 198. 1943.
- Jourdan, A. J. L., Dict. Sci. méd. 5: 446. 1822.
- King, G., J. Bot. 37: 456. 1899.
- Koenig, J. G., Journal of a voyage from India to Siam and Malacca in 1779, J. r. Asiat. Soc. 26: 58-201. 1894, 27: 57-133. 1894.
- Rendle, A. B., J. Bot. 71: 143-153, 175-187. 1933.
- Russel, P., *in* W. Roxburgh, plants of the coast of Coromandel vol. 1, 1795, translated in Usteri, Ann. Bot. 20: 11-23. 1796.
- Smith, J. E., *in* Rees, Cycl. 20, 1812 (*Koenigia*).
- Stafleu, F. A., Intr. Jussieu Gen. pl., reprint ed. xl. 1964.
- Warming, E., Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 72. 1880 (bibl.).
#### Composite works
*Descriptiones monandrarum pro annis 1778 et 1779, in* Retzius, A. J., *Obs. bot.* 3: 45-76. 1783.
#### Eponymy
*Koenigia* Linnaeus (1767).