Carl Fredrik Nyman

Carl Fredrik Nyman (August 31, 1820 - April 26, 1893) was a Swedish botanist who was a native of Stockholm. The plant genus Nymania is named in his honor.

Nyman was curator at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. With Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794-1865) and Theodor Kotschy (1813-1866), he was editor of Analecta Botanica (1854). Among his publications are the following:

Conspectus Florae Europaeae, (volume 1- September 1878, volume 2- October 1879, volume 3- July 1881, volume 4- October 1882, addendum- December 1885).
Sylloge Florae Europaeae, (1854–1855).

The standard author abbreviation Nyman is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.

^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

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Name	Nyman, Carl Fredrik
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Date of birth	August 31, 1820
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Date of death	April 26, 1893
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