Friedrich Leybold (29 September 1827, Grossköllenbach (

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

) – 31 December 1879,

Santiago de Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

) was a German-Chilean pharmacist and naturalist. In 1855 he relocated to Chile as a pharmaceutical industrialist, eventually settling in Santiago de Chile. While in

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...

, he traveled the Argentine

Pampas The Pampas (from the qu, pampa, meaning "plain") are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazi ...

, publishing "''Escursion a las pampas arjentinas : hojas de mi diario, febrero de 1871''" as a result. While collecting specimens in the

Juan Fernández Archipelago ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

, he discovered the Alejandro Selkirk firecrown (''

Sephanoides fernandensis The firecrowns are the genus ''Sephanoides'' of the hummingbirds. There are two species. The green-backed firecrown occurs widely in Argentina and Chile, but the Juan Fernández firecrown is found solely on Isla Róbinson Crusoe, one of a th ...

leyboldi''), a subspecies of hummingbird endemic to Alejandro Selkirk Island.JSTOR Global Plants
Leybold, Friedrich (1827-1879) It is now classified as extinct; the last sighting of the subspecies was in 1908. Sephanoides_fernandensis_leyboldi

He provided descriptions for a number of botanical species and is the

taxonomic authority In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...

of the family

Tecophilaeaceae Tecophilaeaceae is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. It consists of nine genera with a total of 27 species. The family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG IV system of 2016 (un ...

. The hard fern species ''Blechnum leyboldtianum'' (synonym '' Blechnum blechnoides'') is named in his honor. He was author of a monograph on the botanical order Salicineae that became part of the "

Flora Brasiliensis ''Flora Brasiliensis'' is a book published between 1840 and 1906 by the editors Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Wilhelm Eichler, Ignatz Urban and many others. It contains taxonomic treatments of 22,767 species, mostly Brazilian angiosp ...

" series.OCLC WorldCat
Salicineae

References

1827 births 1879 deaths German pharmacists German naturalists 19th-century German botanists 19th-century Chilean botanists Chilean naturalists People from Dingolfing-Landau German emigrants to Chile {{Germany-botanist-stub