> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 430](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355517) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6378-1) LSID 6378-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68470) QID Q68470 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Mertens, Franz Karl (Carl) (1764-1831), German botanist, director of a business school in Bremen. **Abbreviated name**: *Mert.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Mert.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LE|LE]] (Herder 1893, p. 262); further material in several herbaria, e.g. [[Collection K|K]](2000), [[Collection PC|PC]] (types of algae), [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 478; BFM 443, 444; BM 7: 1717, 3: 1292; Bossert p. 265; Clokie p. 210; CSP 4: 352, 10: 784; Dawson p. 609; De Toni 1: lxxxiv; Hegi 5(3): 2128; Herder p. 187, 253; DTS 1: 189; Frank 3(Anh.): 63-64; Hortus 3: 1199 ("Mert."); IH 2: 530; Kew 3: 662; KR p. 501; Langman p. 326, 331, 339, 379, 505; Lasègue p. 326, 339; Lenley p. 464; PR (alph.); RS p. 118; Urban-Berl. p. 267; Zander ed. 10, p. 691, ed. 11, p. 788. - Anon., Flora 14: 544. 1831 (d.), 14(2) Int. Bl. 3: 8. 1831 (sale libr., herb.). - Fischer-Benzon, R. J. D. von, *in* P. Prahl, Krit. Fl. Schleswig-Holstein 2: 37. 1890. - Graustein, J. E., Thomas Nuttall 118, 173. 1967. - Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 371. 1864. - Kirschleger, F., Fl. Alsace 2: lxxvi-lxxvii. 1857. - Mertens, C., *in* Biogr. Skizzen Brem. Aerzte Naturf. 239-392. 1844. - Roth, Cat. bot. 1(1): 34. 1797. - Schmid, G., Chamisso als Naturforscher 1942, nos. 71, 77. - T., Bot. Zeit. 5: 115. 1847 (review of *Biogr. Skizzen verslorbener Bremischer Aerzte und Naturforscher*, Bremen 1844). - VanLandingham, S. L., Cat. Diat. 6: 3569. 1978, 7: 4204. 1978. #### Composite works See under J. C. Röhling, *Deutschlands Flora*, of which ed.3 was published by F. K. Mertens and W. D. J. Koch (1771-1849). Mertens and Koch were the actual auhors of vols. 1-3, Koch of vols. 4-5 of that edition. #### Handwriting Candollea 32: 169-170. 1977. #### Eponymy *Mertensia* Roth (1797, *nom. cons.*): *Mertensia* Willdenow (1804): *Mertensia* Thunberg ex Roth (806); *Mertensia* Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth (1817); *Mertensides* Fontaine (1883).