Elsa Nyholm

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Elsa Cecilia Nyholm (born Tufvesson; * 1911 in Nordanå ; † 2002 ) was a Swedish botanist , in particular bryologist and researcher at Lund University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History . Your official botanical author abbreviation is " Nyholm ".

Life

Elsa Nyholm was born on a farm in Nordanå, in rural Skåne in southern Sweden. Despite her strong interest in natural history, she was not allowed to attend high school. Instead, she attended handicraft and household courses and developed her interest in nature on the side. In 1932 she got a job as a museum assistant at the Botanical Museum at Lund University. She specialized in bryology and developed an overview of the moss flora of Northern Europe. Although she did not have a formal academic degree, she found support at the Swedish Natural History Museum in Stockholm and received research grants for the work from 1954 to 1964. From 1964 until her retirement, she was the chief curator of the moss herbarium at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Elsa Nyholm's name is mainly associated with her two great works on moss flora, the Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia and the Illustrated Flora of Nordic Mosses . She had a lasting and fruitful collaboration with British bryologist Alan Crundwell .

The moss genus Nyholmiella ( Orthotrichaceae ) was named in her honor.

Selected scientific works

  • A study on Campylium hispidulum and related species . Transactions of the British Bryological Society 4 (1962): 194-200. Crundwell AC, Nyholm E.
  • A revision of Weissia , subgenus Astomum . I. The European species . Journal of Bryology 7 (1972): 7-19. Crundwell AC, Nyholm E.
  • Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia . II. Musci. Fasc. 1 (1954)
  • Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia . II. Musci. Fasc. 2 (1956)
  • Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia . II. Musci. Fasc. 3 (1958)
  • Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia . II. Musci. Fasc. 4 (1960)
  • Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia . II. Musci. Fasc. 5 (1965)
  • Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia . II. Musci. Fasc. 6 (1969)
  • Studies in the genus Atrichum P. Beauv. A short survey of the genus and the species . Lindbergia 1 (1971): 1-33.
  • Illustrated Flora of Nordic Mosses . Fasc. I. Fissidentaceae – Seligeriaceae (1987)
  • Illustrated Flora of Nordic Mosses . Fasc. 2. Pottiaceae – Sphlachnaceae – Schistostegaceae (1991)
  • Illustrated Flora of Nordic Mosses . Fasc. 3. Bryaceae – Rhodobryaceae – Mniaceae – Cinclidiaceae – Plagiomniaceae (1993)
  • Illustrated Flora of Nordic Mosses . Fasc. 4. Aulacomniaceae – Meesiaceae – Catoscopiaceae – Bartramiaceae – Timmiaceae – Encalyptaceae – Grimmiaceae – Ptychomitriaceae – Hedwigiaceae – Ortotrichaceae (1998)

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SURNAME Nyholm, Elsa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nyholm, Elsa Cecilia; Tufvesson, Elsa Cecilia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish botanist and bryologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordanå
DATE OF DEATH 2002