Leopold Quehl (1849–1922) was a German amateur botanist who specialized in Cactaceae.
Biography
Quehl was born in Halle an der Saale, Germany in 1849. He 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.BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications He was the binomial authority of numerous species within the family Cactaceae, of which he published his findings in the Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde.IPNI List of cacti species described & co-described by Quehl
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. NewtonJSTOR Global Plants Edit History: Neotype of Echinocactus quehlianus Gymnocalycium quehlianum (F.Haage ex Quehl) Vaupel ex Hosseus).The Plant List Gymnocalycium quehlianumCacti collection-Holzheu Gymnocalycium
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