Noël Martin Joseph de Necker


Noël Martin Joseph Necker was a Belgian physician and botanist.

Career

Necker was the personal physician to the court of the Electoral Palatinate in Mannheim. His botanical was work involved the study of mosses on which he wrote several works, and fungi on which he wrote the Traité sur la mycitologie. He is also known for describing the orchid genus Dactylorhiza.

Eponyms

The moss genus Neckera, and its family, the Neckeraceae were named in his honour.

Publications