Johan Linder (1676–1724), Swedish botanist and physician, is the eponym of the plant generic name Lindera (Lauraceae), dedicated to him in 1783 by Carl Peter Thunberg. The present account of Linder includes biographical data, comments on his position in the development of Swedish floristic botany, and discussion of his best-known botanical work, Flora Wiksbergensis (1716), the fourth printed account of Swedish local flora.
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1 March 2005
Johan Linder (Lindestolpe) (1676–1724), Eponym of the Generic Name Lindera Thunberg (Plantae: Lauraceae)
Richard D. Durtsche,
John W. Thieret
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Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science
Vol. 66 • No. 1
Spring 2005
Vol. 66 • No. 1
Spring 2005