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Friedrich Leybold (29 September 1827, Grossköllenbach ( Bavaria) – 31 December 1879, Santiago de Chile) was a German-Chilean
Leybold, Friedrich (1827-1879) It is now classified as extinct; the last sighting of the subspecies was in 1908.
He provided descriptions for a number of botanical species and is the taxonomic authority of the family OCLC WorldCat
Salicineae
pharmacist
A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a healthcare professional who prepares, controls and distributes medicines and provides advice and instructi ...
and naturalist.
In 1855 he relocated to Chile as a pharmaceutical industrialist, eventually settling in Santiago de Chile. While in South America, he traveled the Argentine Pampas, publishing "''Escursion a las pampas arjentinas : hojas de mi diario, febrero de 1871''" as a result. While collecting specimens in the Juan Fernández Archipelago, he discovered the Alejandro Selkirk firecrown ('' Sephanoides fernandensis leyboldi''), a subspecies of hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 361 species and 113 genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics aro ...
endemic to Alejandro Selkirk Island
Alejandro Selkirk Island ( es, Isla Alejandro Selkirk), previously known as Más Afuera (Farther Out (to Sea)) and renamed after the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, is the largest and most westerly island in the Juan Fernández Archipelago of ...
.JSTOR Global PlantsLeybold, Friedrich (1827-1879) It is now classified as extinct; the last sighting of the subspecies was in 1908.
He provided descriptions for a number of botanical species and is the taxonomic authority 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
''Blechnum'', known as hard fern, is a genus of ferns in the family Blechnaceae, subfamily Blechnoideae, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Two very different circumscriptions of the genus are used by d ...
species ''Blechnum leyboldtianum'' (synonym ''Blechnum blechnoides
''Austroblechnum leyboldtianum'', synonym ''Blechnum blechnoides'', known as ''iquide'' in Chilean Spanish, is a fern species endemic to Chile.
It has a distribution range from Concepción to Aisén in Chile. It grows up to altitudes of .
Se ...
'') is named in his honor.
He was author of a monograph on the botanical order Salicineae that became part of the " Flora Brasiliensis" series.Salicineae
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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