Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler
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Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler (1799 - September 1861), was a German-born Professor of Botany and taxonomist, whose main area of interest was the Cactaceae. From a collection by Henri Galeotti, he first described Ariocarpus retusus, type species of the genus in 1838 in Brussels. [1]
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- ^ Ariocarpus
- ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.