Max Joseph Roemer

Max Joseph Roemer (1791–1849) was a German botanist who worked in Weimar.

He served as a Landrichter (country judge) in the Bavarian town of Aub, afterwards working as a private scientist in Würzburg.[1]

He is the taxonomic authority of the genera Heteromeles, Pyracantha and Erythrocarpus as well as of numerous plant species.[2]

Publications
  • Roemer, Max Joseph (1845–1847). Familiarum naturalium regni vegetabilis synopses monographicae; seu, Enumeratio omnium plantarum hucusque detectarum secundum ordines naturales, genera et species digestarum, additis diagnosibus, synonymis, novarumque vel minus cognitarum descriptionibus (4 fascicles). Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir.
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References
  1. Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  2. IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Roemer
  3. IPNI.  M.Roem.


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