Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler

Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler
Born(1799-08-01)1 August 1799
Cologne, Rhin-et-Moselle, First French Republic
Died24 September 1861(1861-09-24) (aged 62)
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Scientific career
Fieldsbotany, horticulture
InstitutionsÉtablissement Géographique de Bruxelles; State School of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture (Anderlecht); State School of Horticulture (Gentbrugge)

Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler (1 August 1799 – 24 September 1861) 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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