Léia Akcelrad Lerner de Scheinvar is a Brazilian-Mexican botanist. She has dedicated her work to studying and protecting Mexico's
cacti
A cactus (: cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae (), a family of the order Caryophyllales comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, ...
.
Early life and education
Scheinvar was born in
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
on 30 September 1954.
She received her doctorate in biology from the
UNAM Faculty of Sciences in 1982.
Career
She is responsible for the ''Laboratorio de Cactáceas'' in the botanical garden of
UNAM
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countries. It also has 34 ...
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References
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La extinción de los cactus' from ''México Desconocido''
Brazilian emigrants to Mexico
20th-century Brazilian botanists
Mexican botanists
Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Mexican women botanists
Brazilian women botanists
21st-century Brazilian botanists
1954 births
Living people
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