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Bertil Nordenstam
Swedish botanist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rune Bertil Nordenstam (born 1936)[1] is a Swedish botanist and professor emeritus at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in the Department of Phanerogamic Botany.[2] He has worked with Colchicaceae, Senecioneae[3][4] and Calenduleae,[5] was the editor of Compositae Newsletter newsletter since 1990, and is a Tribal Coordinator for The International Compositae Alliance with responsibility for the tribes Calenduleae and Senecioneae.[6]
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He has done field work in Greece, Sweden, Turkey, Mongolia, Egypt, Namibia. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation B.Nord. when citing a botanical name.[7][8]
In 2006, botanist Roger Lundin published Nordenstamia, a genus of flowering plants from South America, belonging to the family Asteraceae and named in Nordenstam's honour.[9]