John Axel Nannfeldt

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John Axel Nannfeldt
Born18 January 1904
Died4 November 1985 (1985-11-05) (aged 81)
Nationality Sweden
Alma materUppsala University
Scientific career
Fieldsmycology, botany
InstitutionsUppsala University
Author abbrev. (botany)Nannf.
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John-Axel Nannfeldt (baptized Johan Axel Frithiof Nannfeldt), born 18 January 1904 in

Swedish botanist and mycologist
.

Nannfeldt studied

smut fungi[4] and Exobasidium.[5] He also treated taxonomy and biogeography of various groups of vascular plants, e.g. the arctic Poa laxa complex.[6]

Nannfeldt published the exsiccate work Fungi Exsiccati Suecici, praesertim Upsalienses together with Lennart Holm and others.

He was elected member no. 983 of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1955.

The fungal

fungi in the family Pyronemataceae.[8][9]
The species of
cup fungus, Plectania nannfeldtii was also named in 1968.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^
    JSTOR 1221342
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  2. ^ Nannfeldt, J. A. (1932). Studien über die Morphologie und Systematik der nicht-lichenisierten inoperculaten Discomyceten (Thesis, Uppsala University). Nova acta Regiae societatis scientiarum upsaliensis - Ser. 4. v. 8, no. 2. Almqvist & Wiksell. p. 368.
  3. ^ Hylander, N.; I. Jørstad; J. A. Nannfeldt (1953). Enumeratio Uredinearum Scandinavicarum. Opera Botanica. Vol. 1. pp. 1–102.
  4. ^ Nannfeldt, J. A. (1977). "The species of Anthracoidea (Ustilaginales) on Carex subgen. Vignea with special regard to the Nordic species". Botaniska Notiser. 130: 351–375.
  5. ^ Nannfeldt, J. A. (1981). "Exobasidium, a taxonomic reassessment applied to the European species". Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses. 23: 1–72.
  6. ^ Nannfeldt, J. A. (1963). "Taxonomic differentiation as an indicator of the migratory history of the North Atlantic Flora with special regard to the Scandes". In Löve, Á.; Löve, D. (eds.). North Atlantic Biota and their History: A symposium held at University of Iceland, Reykjavík July 1962. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
  7. ^ "Nannfeldtiella aggregata Eckblad". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  8. ^ Korf R. (1960). "Jafnea, a new genus of the Pezizaceae". Nagaoa. 7: 3–8.
  9. . Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  10. ^ Eckblad FE. (1968). "The genera of the operculate discomycetes". Nytt Magasin for Botanik. 15: 116.
  11. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Nannf.

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