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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.


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  • ''Florae Berolinensis prodromus'' (1787)

  • ''Grundriß der Kräuterkunde'' (1792)

  • ''Berlinische Baumzucht'' (1811)

  • ''Linnaei species plantarum'' (1798-1826, 6 volumes)

  • ''Anleitung zum Selbststudium der Botanik'' (1804)

  • ''Enumeratio plantarum horti regii botanici Berolinensis'' (1809)

  • ''Hortus Berolinensis'' (1816)