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Leopold Quehl (1849–1922,
Quehl was employed as a postal worker in Halle. Around 1873 he developed an interest in
Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names] by Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton * '' Gymnocalycium quehlianum'' ( F.Haage ex Quehl) Vaupel ex Hosseus).Cacti collection-Holzheu
Gymnocalycium
Halle an der Saale
Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anh ...
) was a German amateur botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
who specialized in Cactaceae
A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ...
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Biography
Quehl was employed as a postal worker in Halle. Around 1873 he developed an interest in cacti
A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ...
, and subsequently amassed a large collection of living plants as well as creating a herbarium
A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.
The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...
. He was the binomial authority
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
of numerous species within the family Cactaceae
A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ...
, of which he published his findings in the ''Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde''.
Quehl was a founding member of ''Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft'' (DKG).
Legacy
Plants with the specific epithets of ''quehlianum'' and ''quehlianus'' are named in his honor; examples being: * ''Echinocactus quehlianus'' (F.Haage ex Quehl).Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names] by Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton * '' Gymnocalycium quehlianum'' ( F.Haage ex Quehl) Vaupel ex Hosseus).
Gymnocalycium
References
1849 births 1922 deaths 19th-century German botanists People from Halle (Saale) 20th-century German botanists {{Germany-botanist-stub