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Gustaf Lagerheim
Swedish botanist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nils Gustaf Lagerheim (1860–1926) was a Swedish botanist, mycologist, phycologist, and pteridologist.[1]
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Born | (1860-10-18)18 October 1860 |
Died | (1926-01-02)2 January 1926 |
Nationality | Swedish |
Alma mater | Upsala university |
Occupation | Botanist |
Spouse | Céline Julie Berthe Devéria |
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Today, he is best remembered as one of the chief architects of pollen analysis as a tool in botany, alongside his student Ernst Post.[2][3]
In 1895, botanists Giovanni Battista De Toni and Robert Hippolyte Chodat published Lagerheimia, which is a genus of green algae in the family Oocystaceae, named in his honour.[4] Then in 1940, Boedijn published Lagerheimiella, another green algae genus.[5]
The standard author abbreviation Lagerh. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]