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### Author
Sehlmeyer, Johann Friedrich (1788-1856), German (Hannover) botanist and pharmacist; from circa 1821 until 1852 in charge of the "Hofapothek" in Köln.
**Abbreviated name**: *Sehlm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sehlm.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BHU|BHU]]. – Some further material at Bonn, [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]] and [[Collection NA|NA]] (bryo.). – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 257 (b. 22 Feb 1788, d. 1 Sep 1856); Biol. Dokum. 16: 8577; BM 4: 1894; GR p. 138; Jackson p. 13; KR p. 634 (also: 208, no. 105); LS 24587-24588; PR 8592, 10346, ed. 1: 11319; SY p. 65.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bot. Not. 1858: 14 (d.); Flora 6: 735-736. 1823 (works on a Flora bonnensis et coloniensis), 24: 330. 1841 (activity Bot. Ver.), 40: 93. 1857 (obit.).
- Bässler, M., Wiss. Z. Humboldt-Univ. Berlin, mat.-nat. R. 19: 297. 1970 (Sehlmeyer's herb. was part of herb. Nat. Ver. Preuss. Rheinl.; this was given by Bonn to Berlin-Dahlem (B) in 1936 but stored in the Erwin-Baur Institute during World-War II; ("gerettet") taken away by Soviet troups to the U.S.S.R., handed over to BHU in 1964).
- Oligschläger, F.W., Flora 16: 347-348. 1833 (coll. Rhineland).
- Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 518. 1977 (coll. H-Sol.).
- T., Bot. Zeit. 15: 63-64. 1857, Bonplandia 5: 225. 1857 (obit.).
- Verdoorn, F., Chron. bot. 3: 22. 1937.
- Wirtgen, F., S.B. nat. Ver. Preuss. Rheinl. 1907(1): E49. 1908 (herb. Sehlmeyer came to this society \[it is now at BHU\]; Flora 24: 329. 1841 (activities Bot. Ver. Mittel-Niederrhein.), 25: 396. 1842 (collaboration *Prodr. Fl. preuss. Rheinl.*).
#### Composite works
*Carex* and *Gramineae in* P. Wirtgen, *Prodr. Fl. preuss. Rheinl.* 1842, q.v.
### Publications
##### n.11.628. Index alphabeticus specierum hymenomycetum
**Title**
*Index alphabeticus specierum hymenomycetum* in Epicrisi systematis mycologici Friesii descriptarum earumque synonymarum conscripsit J.F. Sehlmeyer. Coloniae ad Rhenum \[Köln\] (typis et sumtibus Joannis Petri Bachemii) 1852. Oct. (in fours).
**Abbreviated title**: *Index alph. hymenomyc.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1852 (Flora 21 Jun 1852 "so eben"), p. \[1\]-58, \[1, err.\]. *Copies*: B, FI, NY, Stevenson. – Index to E.M. Fries, *Epicr. syst. mycol.* 1836-1838, see TL-2/1882.