Species Olinia micrantha

For Johan Henrik Olin (1769–1824), Swedish botanist, student of Carl Peter Thunberg, and author. He studied theology in 1789 and obtained a BA degree in 1793, became an assistant at the botanical garden in Uppsala, during which he obtained further degrees and a licentiate in medicine in 1797. He was the acting medical officer in Växjö in 1800, the district medical officer in Eksjö in 1802, district medical officer in Växjö in 1815, and the nation’s curator in Växjö from 1794–1796. He translated from German to Swedish Paul Erdman Isert’s Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Colombia (1788). He was also the author of Plantae Svecanae (1797) and Dissertatio Arnica (1799).