Clas Alströmer

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Clas Alströmer

Baron Clas Alströmer (1736–1794) was a Swedish naturalist who was a student of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University. From 1760–1764 he traveled throughout Southern Europe, collecting plants for Linnaeus. He established a botanical garden and natural museum near Gothenburg which was managed by the notable botanist Anders Dahl, another student of Linnaeus. Alströmer was the son of the industrialist Jonas Alströmer. The genus Alstroemeria was named after him by Linnaeus.^[1]^[2]

The standard author abbreviation Alstr. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[3]

Notes

↑ Arkiv för botanik, Volume 7. Almqvist & Wiksell. 1908.
↑ Blunt, Wilfrid (2001). The compleat naturalist: a life of Linnaeus. frances lincoln ltd. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-7112-1841-3.
↑ [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Alstr. "Author Query for 'Alstr.'"]. International Plant Names Index.

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Name	Alstromer, Clas
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Short description	Swedish botanist
Date of birth	1736
Place of birth
Date of death	1794
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