Swedish botanist
Carl Fredrik Nyman (31 August 1820 – 26 April 1893) was a Swedish botanist born in Stockholm . His middle name is alternatively spelled Frederik or Frederick .
Nyman was a curator at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm (1855–1889).[1] With Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794–1865) and Theodor Kotschy (1813–1866), he was editor of Analecta Botanica (1854). Among his publications are the following:
The plant genus Nymania (synonym Phyllanthus ) was named in his honor by Karl Moritz Schumann . In 1891 Otto Kuntze named the genus Nymanina after him.[1] [2]
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This article incorporates translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia .
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