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Fagerlind, Folke

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

 

Born: 1907, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

career:

Botanist, educated at the University of Stockholm; lecturer, Assistant Professor, and since 1949 Professor of Botany, University of Stockholm.

In 1938 he stayed for about 4 months in the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens. In 1953 lie visited Australia and Java when returning from a trip to Ecuador.

Author of numerous papers on embryology and cytology of Balanophoraceae, Pandanaceae, Rubiaceae, etc.1

 

Collecting localities:

1938. W. Java: Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens (Hort. Bog.), at Tjibodas and on the slopes of G. Pangrango-Gedeh, at Pasar Ikan near Batavia.-1953. W. Java: on summits of G. Gedeh and Pangrango (July 28 and 29) during an excursion with W. Meijer (see there) from July 25-Aug. 10; and in Hort. Bog.

 

collections:

Material for embryological and cytological research in Herb. Un. Stockholm [SUNIV]; 50 nos Pilea and Elatostema from Java in Herb. State Mus. Stockholm [S] (pres. 1940).

 

literature:

(1) E.g.: ‘Vier neue im Botanischen Garten von Buitenzorg kultivierte Pandanus-Arten’ (Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 34, 1940, p. 101-116, fig. 1-6); ‘Bau und Entwicklung der vegetativen Organe von Balanophora’ (Kungl. Svensk. Vetensk. Ak. Handl. III, 25, no 3, 1948, 72 pp., 12 textfig.).