Casimir Christoph Schmidel
Casimir Christoph Schmidel (born 21 November 1718 in Bayreuth, Germany, died 18 December 1792 in Ansbach, Germany) was a naturalist of the 18th century who researched in botany and mineralogy.Among genera he named are the flowering plant genera ''Penstemon'' and ''Proboscidea'' and the fern genus ''Thelypteris''. Among species he described are the red alga ''Dilsea carnosa'' Provided by Wikipedia
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