Otto Rudolf Holmberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish botanist (1874–1930)
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Place of Birth: Simrishamn, Skåne County, Sweden
About Otto Rudolf Holmberg
- Otto Rudolf Holmberg (1 February 1874, Simrishamn – 28 December 1930) was a Swedish botanist.
- He was an authority on Scandinavian flora. Beginning in 1893, he received his education in Lund, where from 1909 onward, he served as curator of the botanical institute.
- During his career he undertook several botanical study trips in Scandinavia.His main written work was "Skandinaviens flora", published in four parts from 1922 to 1931.
- Its second volume contained Hampus Wilhelm Arnell's treatise on mosses and liverworts, titled "Mossor a.
- levermossor".
- As a taxonomist, he circumscribed a number of species within the grass genus Puccinellia.
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