Johann August Carl Sievers

German botanist

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Johann August Carl Sievers (1762–1795) was a Holy Roman Empire-born botanist who explored Central Asia, Siberia, and other Asian regions of the Russian Empire. Among the species first described by Sievers is Malus sieversii, the ancestor of the domesticated apple. He died and was buried in Saint Petersburg.

The standard author abbreviation Siev. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

In 1811, botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow published Sieversia, which is a genus of flowering plants from Russia and Japan from the family Rosaceae and named in honour of Johann August Carl Sievers.^[2]

References

^ International Plant Names Index. Siev.
^ "Sieversia Willd. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 December 2021.