Leopold Quehl Explained

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.^[1] He was the binomial authority of numerous species within the family Cactaceae, of which he published his findings in the Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde.^[2]

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).^{[3] [4]}
• Gymnocalycium quehlianum (F.Haage ex Quehl) Vaupel ex Hosseus).^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189923#page/466/mode/1up BHL
2. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Quehl&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=u2n5vusQ1DEC&dq=%22Leopold+Quehl%22+1849&pg=PA197
4. http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/si001195?history=true JSTOR Global Plants
5. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2835796 The Plant List
6. http://kakteensammlung-holzheu.de/en/gymnocalycium_quehlianum.html Cacti collection-Holzheu