Ernest (or Ernst) Friedrich Gilg (12 January 1867 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany – 11 October 1933 in Berlin) was a German botanist.

Life

Gilg was curator of the Botanical Museum in Berlin. With fellow botanist Adolf Engler, he co-authored and published a syllabus on botanical families, Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien (8th edition 1919). He also made contributions to Engler's "Das Pflanzenreich", (e.g. the section on the family Monimiaceae). The Poaceae grass genus, Gilgiochloa, was posthumously named after him. His spouse, Charlotte Gilg-Benedict (1872–1936), was co-author in some of his publications, and has the author abbreviation Gilg-Ben.

Work

Over the course of his life, Gilg was binomial author or co-author of many species of plants. He named 42 species, subspecies, and sub-families of various grasses.