> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 554](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355641) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6580-1) LSID 6580-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q913253) QID Q913253 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Moll, Karl Maria Ehrenbert, Freiherr von (1760-1838), German scientist, director of the mathematical-physical class of the Kgl. bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften at München. **Abbreviated name**: *K. Moll* \[standard form in IPNI: *K.Moll*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BR|BR]]; duplicates at [[Collection AWH|AWH]] and [[Collection IBF|IBF]]. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 22: 111-115; Barnhart 2: 503; BM 3: 1334, 7: 856; CSP 4: 434-435, 8: 424; DTS 1: 198-199; Dawson p. 98, 99; GR p. 455; IH 2:549; Lasègue p. 336, 337, 460; SO 1736; WU 19: 2-8. - Anon., Flora 21: 80. 1838. - Hausmann, F. von, Fl. Tirol 1169. 1854. - Martius, C. P. v., Akad. Denkreden 95-112. 1866. - Schlechtendal, D. F. L. v., Linnaea 19(2): 175. 1843 (d. 31 Jan 1838). - Schrank, F. von, Prim. fl. Salisburgensis 1792 (dedicated to M, with frontisp. portr.). - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 3: 88. 1902. - Voigt, A., Bot. Inst. Hamburg 12. 1897. #### Composite works - (1) Franz von Paula Schrank & K. E. Moll, *Naturhistorische Briefe über Oestreich*, 2 vols., Salzburg 1785, see under Schrank. - (2) Editor of Annalen \[subseq. Ephemeriden and Neue Jahrbücher\] der Berg- und Hüttenkunde 21 vols., 1797-1812. #### Eponymy *Mollia* Schrank ex S. O. Lindberg (1878) [^1]. *Note*: *Mollera* O. Hoffmann (1890) and *Molleriella* G. Winter (1886) are dedicated to Adolpho Frederico Moller (1842-1920), German-born Portuguese botanist, inspector of the botanical garden of Coimbra, student of the flora of the island of Saõ Tomé. *Mollia* J. F. Gmelin (1791, *nom. rej.*), *Mollia *Willdenow (1803), and *Mollia* C. F. P. Martius (1826, *nom. cons.*), are dedicated to L. B. von Moll, Bavarian politician. *Molliardia* Maire & Tison (1911) is dedicated to Marin Molliard (1866-1944), French plant physiologist and pathologist. *Mollinedia* Ruiz & Pavon (1794) is dedicated to Francisco de Mollinedo, Spanish chemist, working in the botanical garden of Madrid. *Molloya* C. F. Meisner (1855) is dedicated to Georgiana Molloy née Kennedy (1805-1843), English-born wife of an Australian government-officer. She collected many plants in W. Australia. [^1]: "*Mollia* Schrank ex Lindb. 1878 (Pottiaceae) \[is dedicated to\] Karl Maria Ehrenbert Freiherr von Moll (1760–1838), Austrian-German (Bavarian) lawyer, politician, scientist, member of Königlich Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften München; and likewise: *Mollia* J.F.Gmel. 1791 (Myrtaceae), *Mollia* Willd. 1803 (Caryophyllaceae), *Mollia* Mart. 1826 (Malvaceae). *Note*. – All these genera are dedicated to the same person, the abbreviation “L. B.” means “Libero Baroni” = Latin for “Freiherr” or “Baron”, it is not an abbreviation for a first name (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften München, pers. comm.)." Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9)