Nordenstam, Rune Bertil   (1936 -  )

He was a Swedish botanist and professor emeritus at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in the Department of Phanerogamic Botany.

He worked with Colchicaceae, Senecioneae and Calenduleae, was the editor of 'Compositae Newsletter' newsletter since 1990, and a Tribal Coordinator for The International Compositae Alliance with responsibility for the tribes Calenduleae and Senecioneae.

He did field work in Greece, Sweden, Turkey, Mongolia, Egypt, Namibia and Australia (in 1962-63 and 1989).

He is denoted by the author abbreviation B.Nord. when citing a botanical name. In 2006, botanist Roger Lundin published Nordenstamia, a genus of flowering plants from South America, belonging to the family Asteraceae and named in Nordenstam's honour.

Source: Extracted from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil_Nordenstam
Portrait Photo: Wikipedia above.

Collecting localities for 'Nordenstam, B.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 2,342 specimens in Australasian herbaria