John Axel Nannfeldt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish botanist
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Place of Birth: Trelleborg, Skåne County, Sweden
About John Axel Nannfeldt
- John-Axel Nannfeldt (baptized Johan Axel Frithiof Nannfeldt), born 18 January 1904 in Trelleborg and deceased 4 November 1985 in Uppsala, was a Swedish botanist and mycologist. Nannfeldt studied natural history at the University of Uppsala and obtained a doctorate degree in 1932.
- He became professor of botany at Uppsala University in 1939, a position he held until his retirement in 1970.
- He did numerous studies on the systematics of fungi and vascular plants.
- Among the groups he treated were the plant pathogenic rust fungi, smut fungi and Exobasidium.
- He also treated taxonomy and biogeography of various groups of vascular plants, e.g.
- the arctic Poa laxa complex.Nannfeldt published the exsiccate work Fungi Exsiccati Suecici, praesertim Upsalienses together with Lennart Holm and others. He was elected member no.
- 983 of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1955. The cup fungus Plectania nannfeldtii is named in his honour, as well as the genus Nannfeldtiella.
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