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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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    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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    (1876–1919) William West (1848–1914) William West Jr (1875–1901) Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812) Algaculture – Aquaculture involving the farming of algae...
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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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    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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    and 2014. 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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    Jatropha moluccana. It was renamed as Aleurites moluccana in 1805 by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in a later edition of Species Plantarum (Sp. Pl. 4: 590 (1805))...
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    Geum macrophyllum (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Geum macrophyllum, commonly known as largeleaf avens or large-leaved avens is a flowering plant found from the Arctic south to the northern U.S. states...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    European species being Tamarix gallica. It was first described by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1816. Flowers and foliage Tamarix canariensis is endemic to the...
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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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    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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    "foliis transversis", and called it the Spanish plane tree. In 1805, Carl Ludwig Willdenow chose to elevate Aiton's variety to species rank, publishing the...
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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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    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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    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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    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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     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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    Agastache scrophulariifolia (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Agastache scrophulariifolia, also known as the purple giant hyssop, is a perennial plant that grows throughout the US and northern Ontario, Canada. Its...
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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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    Podalyria (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Podalyria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 17 species of small trees or shrubs native to the Cape Provinces, Free State...
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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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