Genus Rottboellia
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Short etymology:
For Christen Friis Rottbøll (Rottboell, 1727–1797), Danish botanist and physician, traveller, professor of medicine from 1776 at the University of Copenhagen, and director of the Copenhagen Botanical Garden. As a student, he studied theology, then medicine at the University of Copenhagen, obtaining his doctorate in 1755, and completed further studies in chemistry, botany and medicine at Uppsala University under Linnaeus. Rottbøll made a significant contribution to the way smallpox was prevented or treated in Copenhagen, and as a botanist, he drew up the first comprehensive Flora of Greenland
Scientific name:
Rottboellia L. f.
Etymology source:
Global vulnerability:
NE
Synonym of:
Unknown
Protologue:
Suppl. Pl. 13, 114 (1782)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1782
Observations of Taxon
Rottboellia exaltata
Name of observer:
Barbara Jeppe (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown