Hildur Krog

Hildur Krog (22 March 1922 – 25 August 2014) was a Norwegian botanist.

She was born in Modum. She took the dr.philos. degree in 1968 with a thesis on Alaskan lichens, was hired as a curator at the Botanical Museum of Oslo in 1971 and served as professor at the University of Oslo from 1987 to 1992.[1] For 15 year from 1969 she collaborated with the British amateur lichenologist Dougal Swinscow to study the macrolichen flora of East Africa. They undertook field collections as well as characterisation and revision of the limited existing lichen knowledge of the region, presented in 33 scientific publications and a book The Macrolichens of East Africa, British Museum (Natural History) in 1988.[2]

In 1992 Hildur Krog was awarded the Acharius Medal by the International Association for Lichenology[3]

She was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[4] She died in 2014.[5]

Several lichen are named in her honour, including Krogia which a genus of corticolous lichens in the family Ramalinaceae.[6] Also lichen species such as; Leptogium krogiae,[7] Dictyonema krogiae,[8] and Usnea krogiana.[9]

The standard author abbreviation Krog is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Hildur Krog". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  2. ^ James, Peter W. (1993). "OBITUARY THOMAS DOUGLAS (DOUGAL) VICTOR SWINSCOW 10 July 1917-24 September 1992". The Lichenologist. 25 (4): 443–450. doi:10.1006/lich.1993.1008. S2CID 85577246.
  3. ^ "Acharius Medallists". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Gruppe 5: Biologi" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  5. ^ Death announcement, Aftenposten
  6. ^ Kistenich, Sonja; Rikkinen, Jouko K.; Thüs, Holger; Vairappan, Charles S.; Wolseley, Patricia A.; Timdal, Einar (2018). "Three new species of Krogia (Ramalinaceae, lichenised Ascomycota) from the Paleotropics". MycoKeys. 40 (40). Pensoft Publishers: 69–88. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.40.26025. PMC 6170524. PMID 30294209. S2CID 52925537.
  7. ^ Bjelland, Torbjørg; Bendiksby, Mika; Frisch, Andreas (2017). "Geographically disjunct phylogenetic lineages in Leptogium hibernicum reveal Leptogium krogiae sp. nov. from East Africa". The Lichenologist. 49 (3): 239–251. doi:10.1017/S0024282916000645. S2CID 90234682.
  8. ^ Lücking, Robert; Timdal, Einar (2016). "New species of Dictyonema and Cyphellostereum (lichenized Basidiomycota: Hygrophoraceae) from tropical Africa and the Indian Ocean, dedicated to the late Hildur Krog". Willdenowia. 46 (1): 191–199. doi:10.3372/wi.46.46115.
  9. ^ Clerc, Philippe (2006). "Synopsis of Usnea (lichenized Ascomycetes) from the Azores with additional information on the species in Macaronesia". The Lichenologist. 38 (3): 191–212. doi:10.1017/S002428290600569X. S2CID 85154154.
  10. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Krog.


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