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### Author
Leiberg, John Bernhard (1853-1913), Swedish-born botanist; moved to America after 1868; settled near Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 1888; collector and explorer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1895-1896), for the U.S. Geological Survey (1897-1903); forestry inspector in the Phillippines 1904-1905, 1905-1906 id. in Western U.S.; made a trip around the world in 1909.
**Abbreviated name**: *Leiberg* \[standard form in IPNI: *Leiberg*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection US|US]].
*Exsiccatae*:
1. *Musci leibergiani*, with E. G. Britton, nos. 1-230, New York 1890-?, sets at [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection NY|NY]].
2. *Mosses from Kootnai Co., Idaho*, numbers up to 266, sets at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. Written records of Leiberg's explorations in Oregon are at the University of Oregon library. Leiberg presented a collection of flowering plants to [[Collection ORE|ORE]].
*Ref*.: Anon., Bot. Gaz. 15: 158. 1890.
- Williams, Bull. Torrcy bot. Club 42: 571-577. 1915 (L's mosses from Philippines and Hawaii).
- Thatcher, E. P., Taxon 25: 217-218. 1976.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 364; BM 3: 1083; Bossert p. 233; CSP 12: 438, 16: 689; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Leib."); IH 2: 426; Kew 3: 403; KR p. 386-387 (orig. Johan Liberg); Lenley p. 261-262; NW p. 51; Pennell p. 612; Rehder 5: 500; SBC p. 125 ("Leib."); SK 1: 320.
- Blankinship, J. W., Montana Agr. Coll. Sci. Stud. 1(1): 10, 21. 1905.
- Chamberlain, E. B., Bryologist 18(3): 47-48. 1915.
- Ewan, J., Rocky Mountain Naturalists 248. 1950.
- Leiberg, J. B., Forest conditions in the northern Sierra Nevada, California, U.S. Geol. Surv. Profess. paper 8, 1902, 194 p., 12 maps.
- Piper, C. V., Contr. natl. Herb. 11: 19. 1906.
- Reveal, J. *in* A. Cronquist et al., Intermountain flora 1: 61-62. 1972.
- Rydberg, P. A., Augustana Coll. Libr. Publ. 5: 40-41. 1907 (bibl.).
#### Eponymy
*Leibergia* J. M. Coulter & J. N. Rose (1896).
### Publications
##### n.4337. General report on a botanical survey of the Coeur d'Alene Mountains
**Title**
*General report on a botanical survey of the Coeur d'Alene Mountains* in Idaho during the summer of 1895. Washington (Government printing office) 1897. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 25 Jan 1897, cover map, \[i-iii\], 1-85. *Copies*: BR, MO, U, US. – Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 5(1). 1897. To be cited from journal.