Per Erland Berg Wendelbo (19 September 1927 – 25 September 1981) was a Norwegian botanist. He was born in
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...
, a son of physician Per Kristian Lund Wendelbo and textile designer
Sigrun Berg
Sigrun Karoline Matina Berg (18 May 1901 – 18 May 1982) was a Norwegian weaver and textile designer.
Biography
Berg was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was a daughter of judge Paal Berg and Caroline Debes, and was the mother of ...
, and grandson of judge and politician
Paal Berg. He was appointed professor of botany at the
University of Gothenburg
The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...
from 1965 to 1981, and was a specialist on Southwestern Asian flora. Among his publications are ''The Ariamehr Botanical Garden Handbook'' from 1974 and ''Tulips and Irises of Iran and their relatives'' from 1977.
In 1959, he first published ''
Iris cycloglossa
''Iris cycloglossa'' (sometimes known as the Afghani iris) is a species in the genus '' Iris'', in the subgenus ''Scorpiris''. It comes from Afghanistan.
Description
It has a small ovate blackish brown bulb, which also has tuberous roots, which ...
'' from
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
, in 'Biologiske Skrifter' 10(3): 187.
Selected publications
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References
1927 births
1981 deaths
Scientists from Oslo
20th-century Norwegian botanists
Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg
Norwegian expatriates in Sweden
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