Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers [SEP] place of death
Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers
Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (26 December 1816 in Mühlhausen – 18 June 1853 in Berlin) was a German botanist. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Walp. when citing a botanical name.
He received his education at the Universities of Greifswald and Breslau, earning his habilitation in 1848 at Berlin. He died on 18 June 1853 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The plant genus "Walpersia" (synonym "Phyllota") is named after him.
Selected pubplications.
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, the name ""Malva acerifolia"" had been mentioned by Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers in relation to a quite different North American species that Walpers called "Sphaeralcea acerifolia" (now "Iliamna rivularis"). On this basis, in 1998, Martin Forbes Ray published the replacement name "Malva canariensis". Although this is regarded as the correct name by some sources, the International Plant Names Index treats Walpers' "Malva acerifolia" as erroneous so that the replacement name is unnecessary and hence superfluous and illegitimate.