Leopold Quehl
Leopold Quehl (1849–1922, Halle an der Saale) was a German amateur botanist who specialized in Cactaceae.
He was employed as a postal worker in Halle. Around 1873 he developed an interest in cacti, and subsequently amassed a large collection of living plants as well as creating a herbarium.[1] He was the binomial authority of numerous species within the family Cactaceae, of which he published his findings in the Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde.[2]
Gymnocalycium quehlianum
Plants with the specific epithets of quehlianum and quehlianus are named in his honor; examples being:
- Echinocactus quehlianus (F.Haage ex Quehl).[3][4]
- Gymnocalycium quehlianum (F.Haage ex Quehl) Vaupel ex Hosseus).[5][6]
Quehl was a founding member of Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft (DKG).[3]
References
- ↑ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ↑ IPNI List of cacti species described & co-described by Quehl
- 1 2 Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names] by Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton
- ↑ JSTOR Global Plants Edit History: Neotype of Echinocactus quehlianus
- ↑ The Plant List Gymnocalycium quehlianum
- ↑ Cacti collection-Holzheu Gymnocalycium
- ↑ IPNI. Quehl.
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