Johan Albert Constantin Löfgren

Johan Albert Constantin Löfgren
Born 1854
Died 1918
Fields botany
Author abbrev. (botany) Loefgr.

Johan Albert Constantin Löfgren (1854–1918), known as Albert Löfgren or Alberto Löfgren, was head of the botany department of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden around 1905. The plant currently known as Schlumbergera opuntioides is one of those he first named.[1]

References

  1. ↑ McMillan, A.J.S.; Horobin, J.F. (1995), Christmas Cacti : The genus Schlumbergera and its hybrids (p/b ed.), Sherbourne, Dorset: David Hunt, ISBN 978-0-9517234-6-3, p. 14
  2. ↑ IPNI.  Loefgr.


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