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Carl Ludwig Willdenow ( August 22 , 1765 - July 10 , 1812 ) was a German Botanist and Pharmacist . Willdenow was born in Berlin and studied Medicine and Botany at the University Of Halle . He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Berlin from 1801 until his death. There he studied many South America n plants, brought back by the explorer Alexander Von Humboldt . He was interested in the adaptation of plants to climate, showing that the same climate had plants having common characteristics. His Herbarium , containing more than 20,000 species, is still preserved in Berlin. The standard Botanical Author Abbreviation Willd. is applied to plants he described. WORKS
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