Björn Gustaf Oscar Floderus (14 August 1867, Uppsala – 12 May 1941,

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) was a Swedish physician and

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, specializing in the willow genus '' Salix''. He was the son of educator Manfred Mustafa Floderus (1832–1909).Biodiversity Heritage Library
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications Beginning in 1885 he studied medicine at the University of Uppsala, where in 1897 he became privat docent of surgery. In 1899 he relocated to Stockholm as chief of surgery at Crown Princess Lovisa's clinic for children. From 1899 to 1917, he was an assistant instructor of surgery at Karolinska Institutet.Björn G O Floderus
Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon - Riksarkivet As a botanist, he engaged in study trips to Arkhangelsk and

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(1911), western Greenland (1921), the northern shore of Kola Peninsula (1923, 1927) as well as conducting numerous botanical excursions throughout the Nordic countries. In Norway, he studied in-depth, willow flora native to the Arctic coast. On two of his journeys, he explored

Kalastajasaarento Rybachy Peninsula (russian: полуо́стров Рыба́чий, ''poluostrov Rybachiy''; se, Giehkirnjárga; no, Fiskerhalvøya; fi, Kalastajasaarento) is the northernmost part of continental European Russia. Its name is translated as ...

Selected works

* ''Bidrag till kämmedomen om Salix floran i Torne Lappmark'', 1908. * ''Studien in der Biologie der Skelettgewebe mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Pathogenese der Histoiden Gelenkgewebsgeschwülste'', 1915 – Studies involving the biology of skeletal tissue with particular reference to the pathogenesis of histoid tumors of joints. * ''Om Grönland salices'', 1923. * "On the Salix Flora of Kamtchatka", Almqvist & Wiksells, 1926. * "Salicaceae Fennoscandicae", Stockholm : P.A. Norstedt, 1931 (with

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 ...

).OCLC WorldCat
Salicaceae Fennoscandicae

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Floderus, Bjorn 1867 births 1941 deaths Swedish surgeons Swedish botanists People from Uppsala Uppsala University alumni