Friedrich Ernst Leibold (sometimes spelled Leybold) (9 December 1804, in Dorfgarten near
Kiel
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Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...
– 21 July 1864, in
Havana
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. ) was a German
gardener
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Description
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and
botanical collector.
Trained as a gardener, he accompanied
Baron von Ludwig to the
Cape of Good Hope
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A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is t ...
as a botanical collector (1835–38). From 1839 to 1844, he collected specimens in
Cuba
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and
Mexico
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, later settling as a farmer in Texas (1847). He later took up residence in
, and died in Havana on 21 July 1864 on his way to collect specimens in the
Yucatán.
He was also honoured in 1847, when botanist
Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal published a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
s from Mexico, belonging the family
Asteraceae
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as ''
Leiboldia
''Leiboldia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging the family Asteraceae. It is also in the tribe Vernonieae.
It is native to Mexico.
The genus name of ''Leiboldia'' is in honour of Friedrich Ernst Leibold
Friedrich Ernst Leibold (somet ...
''.
Plants with the specific epithet of ''leiboldiana'' are named after him, an example being ''
Tillandsia leiboldiana
''Tillandsia leiboldiana'' is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Tillandsia''. This species is native to Central America and Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern port ...
''.
Associated writings
* "Filices a Leiboldo in Mexico lectae" by
Gustav Kunze
Gustav Kunze (4 October 1793, Leipzig – 30 April 1851, Leipzig)
was a German professor of zoology, an entomologist and botanist with an interest mainly in ferns and orchids.
Kunze joined the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh in 181 ...
, (1844).
OCLC WorldCat
Filices a Leiboldo in Mexico lectae
References
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1804 births
1864 deaths
Scientists from Kiel
19th-century German botanists