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Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler

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Botany professor, taxonomist (1799-1861)

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Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler was a German-born professor of botany and taxonomist, whose main area of interest was the Cactaceae. From a collection by Henri Guillaume Galeotti, he first described Ariocarpus retusus, type species of the genus in 1838 in Brussels.

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Lived 1799 to 1861 · aged 62
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