Carl Skottsberg
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Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg (1 December 1880 – 14 June 1963) was a Swedish
Life
Skottsberg was born in Karlshamn on 1 December 1880 the son of Carl Adolf Skottsberg a schoolmaster and his wife, Maria Louisa Pfeiffer.[4]
He was educated locally then studied Sciences at Uppsala University from 1898, specialising in Botany, and receiving his doctorate (PhD) there in 1907.[5]
From 1901 to 1903 Skottsberg served as official botanist to the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901 to 1903 on the ship Antarctic. On his return to Sweden, Skottsberg published (1905) the first comprehensive phytogeographic study of the flora of southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.[6] Later he led the Swedish Magellanic Expedition to Patagonia, 1907 to 1909. Carl Skottsberg is believed to have been the last to have seen the Santalum fernandezianum tree alive when he visited the Juan Fernández Islands in 1908.[7]
He was conservator at the Uppsala University Botanical Museum 1909 to 1914, but led the work on the new Botanical Garden in
In 1909, he married Inga Margareta Reuter.
Skottsberg was a member of the
He is buried at Östra kyrkogården in Gothenburg.
Publications
- The Wilds of Patagonia (1919)
- Remarks on the Hawaiian Flora (1939)
- Observations on Hawaiian Violets (1940)
- Communities of Marine algae (1941)
- Botanical Survey of the Falkland Islands
- The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island
- Meddelanden (1963)
Honours
Several taxa have been named in his honour;[8]
- Skottsbergia Cardot 1905 (genus of moss in Ditrichaceae family),[9]
- Fungi in Gnomoniaceae family),[10]
- Skottsbergiella Epling 1935 (genus of Lamiaceae) a synonym of Cuminia Colla,[11]
- Skottsbergiliana H.St.John 1974 (a genus of Cucurbitaceae), now a synonym of Sicyos,[12]
- Skottsbergiella Boelcke 1982 (genus of Brassicaceae), now a synonym of Xerodraba Skottsb.,[13]
- Skottsbergianthus Boelcke 1984 (genus of Brassicaceae), now a synonym of Xerodraba,[14]
Botanical Reference
References
- ^ .
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Skottsb.
- ^ Nordisk familjebok, vol. 25 (1917), col. 1180, and vol. 38 (Suppl., 1926), col. 368
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ Pisano Valdés, E. (1977). "Fitogeografía de Fuego-Patagonia chilena. I.-Comunidades vegetales entre las latitudes 52 y 56º S". Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia (in Spanish). Vol. VIII. Punta Arenas. p. 122.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ Skottsbergia paradoxa. Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
- ^ "Species Fungorum - GSD Species". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ^ "Skottsbergiella Epling | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ^ "Skottsbergiliana H.St.John | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ^ "Xerodraba Skottsb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ^ "Skottsbergianthus Boelcke | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Skottsb.