Anton Heimerl

{{Short description|Austrian botanist}}

Anton Heimerl (15 February 1857, Budapest - 4 March 1943, Wien) was an Austrian botanist.

Heimerl specialized in research of the plant family Nyctaginaceae,[http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Botany/pdf_hi/sctb-0039.pdf Smithsonian Contributions to Botany] Studies in the Genus Boerhavia L. (Nyctaginaceae), 1-5 F. Raymond Fosberg[https://books.google.com/books?id=jvtMf-Wo8W8C&dq=%22Anton+Heimerl%22+Nyctaginaceae&pg=PA379 The Allioniaceae of Mexico and Central America] Volume 13 by Paul Carpenter Standley and was the binomial authority of many botanical species.[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=Heimerl&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch IPNI] Plant Name Search He was author of the sections on Nyctaginaceae, Phytolaccaceae and Achatocarpaceae in Engler & Prantl's "Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien" (Volume 16, 1934).[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/42000067 Tropicos.org] Achatocarpaceae[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10687 Efloras.org] Phytolaccaceae[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10617 Efloras.org] Nyctaginaceae

In 1903 the genus Heimerlia was named after him by Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel, and in 1941 Carl Skottsberg named the genus Heimerliodendron in his honor.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068380#page/164/mode/1up BHL] Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications[http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?SearchWord=heimerlia Index Nominum Genericorum] Heimerlia