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Nicolaas Laurens Burman
Dutch botanist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicolaas Laurens Burman (27 December 1734 – 11 September 1793) was a Dutch botanist.
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He was the son of Johannes Burman (1707–1780). He succeeded his father to the chair of botany at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam., and at the Hortus Botanicus. He continued the correspondence with Carl Linnaeus, joining him at the University of Uppsala in 1760. He is the author of numerous works including Specimen botanicum de geraniis (1759) and Flora Indica (1768) which was later completed by Johann Gerhard Koenig (1728–1785).
The standard author abbreviation Burm.f. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]