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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Gamochaeta pensylvanica (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    pensylvanicum Willd. Flora of North America, Gamochaeta pensylvanica (Willdenow) Cabrera, 1961. Pennsylvania cudweed Flowers of India, Pennsylvania Cudweed...
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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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    Platanus × acerifolia (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    "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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • and was renamed to the current title in 1954 to honour botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812), director of the Royal Botanic Garden in Schöneberg...
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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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  • 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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  • genus in the family Loganiaceae. It was established in 1790 by Carl Ludwig Willdenow. Species Usteria guineensis "Usteria guineensis in Global Plants...
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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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    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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    Mikania (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    America. "Mikania cordifolia (Linnaeus f.) Willdenow". Flora of North America. "Mikania scandens (Linnaeus) Willdenow". Flora of North America. Media related...
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    Hibbertia scandens (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    February 2010. "Dillenia scandens". APNI. Retrieved 15 September 2021. Willdenow, Carl Ludwig (1799). Species Plantarum. Vol. 2. p. 1251. Retrieved 15 September...
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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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    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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    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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    Peltigera (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    all known lichens were grouped into the genus Lichen. Later, in 1787, Willdenow circumscribed the genus Peltigera, and redescribed P. aphthosa and P....
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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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    plant genus Vestia (family Solanaceae) was named on his honor by Carl Ludwig Willdenow. Manuale botanicum inserviens excursionibus botanicus, sistens stirpes...
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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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    Sibbaldia parviflora (category Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow)
    Sibbaldia parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the genus Sibbaldia of the family Rosaceae, native to Southeast Europe and West Asia. It is a herbaceous...
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