Rune Bertil Nordenstam (born 1936) is a

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botanist and professor emeritus at the

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in the Department of Phanerogamic Botany. He has worked with Colchicaceae,

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and

Calenduleae Calenduleae is a flowering plant tribe of the family Asteraceae. Calenduleae has been widely recognized since Alexandre de Cassini in the early 19th century. There are eight genera and over 110 species, mostly found in South Africa. It is a ...

, was the editor of '' Compositae Newsletter'' newsletter since 1990, and is a Tribal Coordinator for The International Compositae Alliance with responsibility for the tribes

and

. He has done field work in Greece,

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, Turkey, Mongolia, Egypt, Namibia. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation B.Nord. when citing a botanical name. In 2006, botanist

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published '' Nordenstamia'', a genus of flowering plants from South America, belonging to the family Asteraceae and named in Nordenstam's honour.

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* * Botanists with author abbreviations Living people 1936 births Botanists active in Africa Swedish botanists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences {{Sweden-botanist-stub