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About Nils Johan Andersson
- Nils Johan Andersson (20 February 1821 Gärdserum, Småland, Sweden – 27 March 1880 Stockholm), was a Swedish botanist and traveller.
- The standard author abbreviation Andersson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
- He studied at Uppsala University between 1840-45 obtaining a DSc.
- On 30 September 1851 he accompanied the Swedish expedition as botanist aboard the frigate HSwMS Eugenie, sailing from Karlskrona under the command of Captain Christian Adolf Virgin (1797-1870), on the first Swedish circumnavigation, calling at Honolulu, Tahiti, San Francisco, Sydney and Manila, various South American ports, the Galapagos, Hong Kong and Singapore.
- On this voyage he collected at the Cape of Good Hope in April 1853.
- Returning to Sweden, he was appointed Professor of Botany at Lund University.
- He was also director of the Botanical Department of the Swedish Museum of Natural History and the Hortus Bergianus in Stockholm.
- His special interests were Salix, Cyperaceae and Gramineae and he published numerous papers on the systematics and morphology of these taxa.
- In 1875, acting on behalf of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, he acquired Sonder's South African collection of some 100 000 specimens. Andersson was commemorated in the Piperaceae genus Anderssoniopiper Trel..
- According to Yuncker, Trelease's student who completed Trelease's work after his death, there are grave doubts about the type locality of Anderssoniopiper panamense Trel.
- (presently filed under Piper latifolium L.f.), which is not to be found anywhere in Panama.
- It may well have been collected in Tahiti, Honolulu or Sydney and mislabelled during or after the voyage.
- He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1859.
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