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Leopold Quehl (1849–1922, Halle an der Saale) was a German amateur botanist who specialized in Cactaceae.

Biography

Quehl 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. He was the binomial authority of numerous species within the family Cactaceae, 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).
• Gymnocalycium quehlianum (F.Haage ex Quehl) Vaupel ex Hosseus).

References

1. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
2. IPNI List of cacti species described & co-described by Quehl
3. ^ Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names] by Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton
4. JSTOR Global Plants Edit History: Neotype of Echinocactus quehlianus
5. The Plant List Gymnocalycium quehlianum
6. Cacti collection-Holzheu Gymnocalycium
7. International Plant Names Index.  Quehl.

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