Biography

Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter, German / Uruguayan botanist and mycologist (Berlin 10 January 1884 – Hamburg 17 April 1958)

Authored 380 works

Named 1449 taxa

DESCRIBED NEW TAXA

Fungi

Families

Corticiaceae 1910

Sparassidaceae 1910

Plantae

Dryopteridaceae 1949

Woodsiaceae 1949

Genus

Astyposanthes 1913 (Fabaceae)

HONORS

Ritterocactus Sect. Herteria Doweld 1999 (Cactaceae)