Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (24 October, 1811 – 23 January, 1871) was a Dutch botanist.
He was head of the botantical gardens at Rotterdam (1835–1846), Amsterdam (1846–1859) and Utrecht (1859–1871). He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862.
Although he never travelled far, he accumulated a large collection of flora of Australia and the Dutch East Indies through an extensive network of correspondents. He described many important families of Australian and Indonesian plants, including Casuarinaceae, Myrtaceae, Piperaceae and Polygonaceae.
