Prof. Karl Olov Hedberg (19 October 1923[1] – 24 September[2] 2007) of Västerås[3] was a botanist, taxonomist, author, professor of systematic botany at Uppsala University from 1970 to 1989,[4] and an Editor of the Flora of Ethiopia.
Professor Hedberg was a pioneer in scientific knowledge on the afroalpine vegetation.
Our present knowledge of this biosystem owes much to the research he and his wife Inga did on the Rwenzori and other high mountains in East Africa.
He was updating the Umbelliferae manuscript (prepared by Vernon Heywood, Stephen Jury and others) when he died in 2007.
[9] Professor Hedberg and his wife Inga (also a botanist) had five children: Per, Bengt, Göran, Björn and Maria.