Leopold Quehl

Leopold Quehl (1849–1922, Halle an der Saale) was a German amateur botanist who specialized in Cactaceae.

Biography
Gymnocalycium quehlianum

Quehl 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]

Quehl was a founding member of Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft (DKG).[3]

Legacy

Plants with the specific epithets of quehlianum and quehlianus are named in his honor; examples being:

References
  1. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  2. IPNI List of cacti species described & co-described by Quehl
  3. Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names] by Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton
  4. JSTOR Global Plants Edit History: Neotype of Echinocactus quehlianus
  5. The Plant List Gymnocalycium quehlianum
  6. Cacti collection-Holzheu Gymnocalycium
  7. International Plant Names Index.  Quehl.



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