Blytt, Axel Gudbrand (1843-1898)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Axel Gudbrand
Last name
Blytt
Initials
A.G.
Life Dates
1843 - 1898
Collecting Dates
1864 - 1887
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes
Fossil plants
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
O (main), B, BM, C, CGE, FI, FR, GB, K, KIEL, L, LD, MANCH, NMW, OXF, P
Countries
Europe: Norway
Associate(s)
Blytt, Matthias Numsen (1789-1862) (father)
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882) (correspondent)
Biography
Norwegian botanist who was attached to the Christiana University in Oslo (1865) where his father had been professor of botany, later being appointed extraodinary professor (1880-1898) in his own right. He published on Norwegian floristics, the Hymenomycetes, meteorology, and is best known for his theory on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating rainy and dry periods. Blyttiomyces A.F. Bartsch in the Chytridiales was named after him.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 71; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 20; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 9; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 80; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): 241;
Blytt, Axel Gudbrand (1843-1898)
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