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    Carl Ludwig Willdenow (22 August 1765 – 10 July 1812) was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of...
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    by German scientist Johann Friedrich Klotzsch. Klotzsch credited Carl Ludwig Willdenow with the species name "pulcherrima", and the authority is given...
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    plant and part of the section Begonia, it was described in 1805 by Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812). The specific epithet "cucullata" means "resembling...
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    Chamaedorea (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Chamaedorea is a genus of 107 species of palms, native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas. They are small palms, growing to 0.3–6 m (1 ft...
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    Glycine (plant) (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Glycine (soybean or soya bean) is a genus in the bean family Fabaceae. The best known species is the cultivated soybean (Glycine max). While the majority...
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    Garden. More significantly, he sent seeds to botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow in Germany. Willdenow now reclassified the rapidly growing number of species...
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    Bjerkandera adusta (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    wood. It was first described scientifically as Boletus adustus by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1787. The genome sequence of Bjerkandera adusta was reported...
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    described by Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum (1753) as Jatropha moluccana. It was renamed as Aleurites moluccana by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in an 1805...
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    degradation. The species Chenopodium quinoa was first described by Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812), a German botanist who studied plants from South America...
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    literature in the year 1810, published in the Species Plantarum by Carl Ludwig Willdenow. It is now placed in the Parkerioideae subfamily of the family Pteridaceae...
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    the honor of Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri by the German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow. As of February 2023[update], Plants of the World Online accepted...
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    Claytonia perfoliata (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Claytonia perfoliata, commonly known as miner's lettuce, rooreh, Indian lettuce, or winter purslane, is a flowering plant in the family Montiaceae. It...
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  • Bupleurum scorzonerifolium (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Bupleurum scorzonerifolium is a species of Bupleurum native to China, Siberia, Russian Far East, Korea, and Japan. Its root is used in traditional Chinese...
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    Aster altaicus (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Aster altaicus is a species of plant belonging to the family Asteraceae. It is a perennial native to Temperate Asia. Eight varieties are accepted. Aster...
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    Ehretia aspera (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Ehretia aspera is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Boraginaceae. It is a small tree native to the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan...
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    Cladonia coccifera (category Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus)
    described by Swedish lichenologist Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum. German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow transferred it to the genus Cladonia...
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  • person as the author when citing a botanical name. In 1811, botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow published Sieversia, which is a genus of flowering plants from Russia...
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    thinkers, including Kantian physician Marcus Herz and botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow, who became one of the most important botanists in Germany. Humboldt's...
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    Pelargonium australe (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    species was first formally described in 1800 by German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow. It occurs on sand dunes, coastal cliffs and rocky outcrops. In...
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    Dialium guineense (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Dialium guineense, the velvet tamarind, is a tall, tropical, fruit-bearing tree in the family Fabaceae. It has small, typically grape-sized, edible fruits...
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     prinoides was named and described by the German botanist Karl (Carl) Ludwig Willdenow in 1801, in a German journal article by Muhlenberg. Chinquapin oak...
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    Peltigera canina (category Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus)
    It was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum. German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow transferred it to the genus Peltigera...
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    Agonis flexuosa (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    39 in) wide. This species was first formally described in 1809 by Carl Ludwig Willdenow who gave it the name Metrosideros flexuosa in his Enumeratio Plantarum...
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    Acacia mangium (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    environmental management and wood. It was first described in 1806 by Carl Ludwig Willdenow, who described it as living in the Moluccas. Acacia mangium grows...
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    Madeira and the Canary Islands. The species was first described by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1806. Its Spanish name is zarzaparrilla canaria. The species...
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    Westringia fruticosa (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Westringia fruticosa, the coastal rosemary or coastal westringia, is a shrub that grows near the coast in eastern Australia. The flowers are white, hairy...
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  • Tagetes elongata (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Tagetes elongata is a Latin American species of marigolds in the family Asteraceae. It has been found in central and southern Mexico from San Luis Potosí...
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    Quercus bicolor (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, Neue Schriften. 3. With remarks by Carl Ludwig Willdenow: 396. "Quercus bicolor". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. "Quercus...
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  • the University of Bonn. Her great-grandfather was the botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow. She was privately educated until completing her Abitur and then...
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    Brugmansia suaveolens was first formally described and published by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1809 as Datura suaveolens. In 1823, Friedrich von Berchtold and...
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