George Heinrich Adolf Scheele
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George Heinrich Adolf Scheele (1808–1864) was a German botanist and 19th century explorer.
He was an expert on spermatophytes[1]
Scheele was the first person to classify Cucurbita texana.
- California
An important part of his botanical specimen collections are stored in the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California.
- Author abbreviation
The standard author abbreviation Scheele is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]