Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher, also known as Endlicher István László (24 June 1804 – 28 March 1849), was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist.
Sequoiadendron giganteum (also known as the giant sequoia, giant redwood, Sierra redwood or Wellingtonia) is a species of coniferous tree, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae.
The species was first formally described in 1846 by Austrian botanist Stephen Endlicher in Plantae Preissianae, based on plant material found in the "damp and muddy sanddunes of the Swan River near the town of Perth". [1 ] [6 ] He gave it…
V závorkách za plným jménem autora je uveden letopočet narození a úmrtí; pokud je v závorce uvedena zkratka fl., jedná se pouze o letopočet roku, v němž tento autor publikoval popis taxonu.