Species Rottboellia rhytachne

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