Johan Albert Constantin Löfgren Explained

Johan Albert Constantin Löfgren
Birth Date:1854 9, df=y
Birth Place:Stockholm
Death Place:Rio de Janeiro
Nationality:Swedish, Brazilian
Fields:botany
Doctoral Students:Upsala College
Known For:Director of the Horto Florestal in São Paulo (1907-1909)
Author Abbrev Bot:Loefgr.

Johan Albert Constantin Löfgren (1854–1918), known as Albert Löfgren or Alberto Löfgren, was head of the botany department of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden around 1905. The plant currently known as Schlumbergera opuntioides is one of those he first named.[1]

Löfgren was the first director of the Horto Florestal de São Paulo, from 1907 to 1909, now named the Albert Löfgren State Park.

He is honoured in the naming of Loefgrenia, which is a monospecific, freshwater, epiphytic genus of nonheterocystic cyanobacteria known from Brazil,[2] and the monotypic orchid genus of Loefgrenianthus from SE Brasil.[3]

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Loefgrenia Gomont, 1896 . www.gbif.org . 1 July 2022 . en.
  3. Web site: Loefgrenianthus Hoehne Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 2 July 2022 . en.