Bertil Nordenstam

Rune Bertil Nordenstam (born 1936)[1] is a Swedish botanist and professor emeritus at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in the Department of Phanerogamic Botany.

[2] He has worked with Colchicaceae, Senecioneae[3][4] and Calenduleae,[5] was the editor of Compositae Newsletter newsletter since 1990, and is a Tribal Coordinator for The International Compositae Alliance with responsibility for the tribes Calenduleae and Senecioneae.

[6] He has done field work in Greece, Sweden, Turkey, Mongolia, Egypt, Namibia.

[7][8] In 2006, botanist Roger Lundin 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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