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Johan Wilhelm Heinrich Giess

Johan Wilhelm Heinrich Giess aka Willi Giess is noted for having started an official herbarium at Windhoek, his extensive collection of Namibian plants and generally furthering botanical knowledge of the territory.

Awards & honours
• 1968 Lineé Medal (silver) from the Royal Academy of Sciences • 1980 Gold medal from the South African Academy of Sciences • 1980 Recognised by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for his contribution to Merxmüller's Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika Giess is commemorated in the names of numerous plant species, a beetle and a termite. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Giess when citing a botanical name. ==Bibliography==
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