Philipp Maximilian Opiz


Philipp Maximilian Opiz was a Czech-German forester and botanist.
Beginning in 1805 he served as a cameral-beamter in his hometown of Čáslav, later working in Pardubice and Prague. In 1831 he became a Forstamtsconcipist.
He was the taxonomic authority of numerous plant species, and the creator of many sets of exsiccatae. In 1830 Carl Borivoj Presl named the genus Opizia in his honor.

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