Species Stobaea purpurea

For Kilian Stobaeus (1690–1742), Swedish physician and naturalist. He studied at Lund University, the first individual in Sweden to receive a doctorate of medicine (1721). Later he became acting professor of medicine, then of natural philosophy and experimental physics (1728) and of history (1732). While at Lund University (1727), Linnaeus regularly attended his lectures on molluscs. Stobaeus befriended him, let him live and eat in his house, attend his lectures without payment, and showed him his collection of plants dried and glued to paper, something new to Linnaeus. Later, Linnaeus created his own herbarium and showed his gratitude by naming a plant after Stobaeus. In 1735, Stobaeus donated his collection to Lund University, which became Museum Stobaeanum.