Species Anderbergia rooibergensis

For Arne Alfred Anderberg (1954– ), Swedish botanist and taxonomist, and professor of botany at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. He obtained a PhD from the University of Stockholm (1985), lectured there from 1990 and has been head of phanerogamic botany at the museum since 2001, of botany since 2013. He has worked extensively with the APG classification systems. His special interests include Asteraceae and Ericales. He has authored, inter alia, Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (1991), Asteraceae: Cladistics and Classification (1994) with Kåre Bremer, Phylogenetic Relationships in the Order Ericales (2002), the entry on Asteraceae for The Families and Genera of Flowering plants (2007) with Joachim Kadereit and Charles Jeffrey, and Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of the Compositae (2009) with Vicki Funk, Alfonso Susanna, Tod Stuessy and Randall Bayer.