Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt
Swedish botanist
Date of Birth: 
About Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt
- Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt (8 February 1856, Linköping – 2 October 1934, Lidingö) was a Swedish botanist who worked at the Bergianska Trädgården and Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet in Stockholm.
- In 1907 he received his honorary doctorate. Dahlstedt specialized in research of the plant genera Taraxacum and Hieracium, of which he circumscribed many species.
- The botanical genus Dahlstedtia from the subfamily Faboideae is named in his honor, as are taxa with the specific taxa of dahlstedtii, an example being Taraxacum dahlstedtii, a plant sometimes referred to as "Dahlstedt's dandelion".
Read more at Wikipedia