Carl Fredrik Nyman Explained

Carl Fredrik Nyman (31 August 1820 – 26 April 1893) was a Swedish botanist born in Stockholm. His middle name is alternatively spelled Frederik or Frederick.

Nyman was a curator at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm (1855–1889).^[1] With Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794–1865) and Theodor Kotschy (1813–1866), he was editor of Analecta Botanica (1854). Among his publications are the following:

The plant genus Nymania (synonym Phyllanthus) was named in his honor by Karl Moritz Schumann. In 1891 Otto Kuntze named the genus Nymanina after him.^{[1] [2]}

References

• This article incorporates translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355884#page/808/mode/1up BHL
2. http://tomclothier.hort.net/page78.htm Synonyms -- N to O