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Nils Conrad Kindberg

Died
  
23 August 1910, Uppsala, Sweden

Nils Conrad Kindberg (7 August 1832 in Karlstad – 23 August 1910 in Uppsala) was a Swedish bryologist.

From 1849 he studied at Uppsala University, earning his PhD in 1857. In 1859 he worked as a teacher in Vänersborg, then from 1860 to 1901 taught classes in natural sciences and mathematics in Linköping.

The moss genus Kindbergia (family Brachytheciaceae) is named in his honor.

Selected works

  • Monographia generis Lepigonorum (1863).
  • Svensk flora. Beskrifning öfver Sveriges fanerogamer och ormbunkar (1877).
  • "New Canadian mosses" (1889); with John Macoun.
  • "Catalogue of Canadian plants. Part VI, musci"; with John Macoun (1892).
  • "European and N. American Bryineæ (Mosses)"; 2 parts, published in English (1896).
  • "Genera of European and Northamerican Bryineæ (Mosses) synoptically disposed" (1897).
  • Laubmoose aus dem Umanakdistrikt (1897).
  • Skandinavisk bladmossflora (1903).
  • "New combinations and new taxa of mosses proposed by Nils Conrad Kindberg"; by William C. Steere and Howard A. Crum (1977).

    • References

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