Bertil Nordenstam

Bertil Nordenstam

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]

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]

  1. ^ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Author Details" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
  2. ^ "Bertil Nordenstam". Naturhistoriska riksmuseet. 2008-03-07. Archived from the original (HTML) on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
  3. ^ Pelser, Pieter B; Nordenstam, Bertil; Kadereit, Joachim W.; Watson, Linda E. (November 2007). "An ITS phylogeny of tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae) and a new delimitation of Senecio L.". Taxon. 56 (4). International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT): 1077–1104. doi:10.2307/25065905. JSTOR 25065905.
  4. ^ Cron, Glynis V.; Glynis V. Cron; Bertil Nordenstam (July 2006). "Oresbia, a New South African Genus of the Asteraceae, Senecioneae". Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature. 16 (2): 216–223. doi:10.3417/1055-3177(2006)16[216:OANSAG]2.0.CO;2.
  5. ^ Nordenstam, Bertil; Ida Trift (1999-07-07). "A PHYLOGENETIC STUDY OF THE CALENDULEAE (ASTERACEAE)". XVI International Botanical Congress. 3885. Archived from the original on 2006-07-16. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
  6. ^ "The International Compositae Alliance". Bergius Botanic Garden and Stockholm University. 2004-06-08. Archived from the original (HTML) on 2009-01-16. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
  7. ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 978-1-84246-085-6.
  8. ^ "Nordenstam, Prof. Rune Bertil (1936-)". African Plants. Ithaka Harbors, Inc. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
  9. ^ "Nordenstamia Lundin | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 4 November 2021.