P. Arne K. Strid (born March 7, 1943, in Kristianstad, Sweden) is a Swedish botanist and expert on Greek flora.

Biography

He studied botany, chemistry and genetics in the

University of Lund Lund University () is a public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially founded in 1666 on the ...

and graduated in 1970. His doctorate was about an experimental study for the differentiation and evolution of a group of plants ('' Nigella arvensis'' complex) in the Aegean archipelago (supervisor: professor

Hans Runemark Per Hans Bengt Runemark (7 January 1927 – 11 December 2014) was a Swedish people, Swedish botany, botanist and lichenologist who served as professor of systematic botany at Lund University from 1970 to 1992. Born in Chicago, USA, he graduated ...

) for which he also won the Jesse M. Greenman prize for the best dissertation about scientific

classification of plants Plant taxonomy is the science that finds, identifies, describes, classifies, and names plants. It is one of the main branches of taxonomy (the science that finds, describes, classifies, and names living things). Plant taxonomy is closely allied ...

that year. He was professor of botany (1973-2001) at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

and

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at the

University of Patras The University of Patras (UPatras; , ''Panepistímio Patrón'', ΠΠ) is a public university in Patras, Greece. It is the third-largest university in Greece with respect to the size of the student body, the staff, and the number of department ...

, Greece (1997-1998). He was director of the

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and the Natural History Museum of Göteborg (2001-2008). In 2011 he became emeritus professor at the

Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum The Berlin Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum () is a botanical garden in the locality of the borough of , Berlin, Germany. Constructed between 1897 and 1910 under the guidance of architect Adolf Engler, it has an area of and over 20,000 di ...

, in 2015 at the

, Greece and from 2017 at the

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; , ''Ethnikó kai Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses alo ...

. He is also emeritus professor at the

and the

. Besides

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

, Strid has worked and named new plant species in

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and

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Family

He is married to biologist Barbro Jende Strid and they have two daughters. Together Arne and Barbro Strid edited an annotated re-issue of the

Flora Graeca ''Flora Graeca'' is a publication of the plants of Greece in the late 18th century, resulting from a survey by John Sibthorp and Ferdinand Bauer. The botanical descriptions and illustrations became highly valued by the English audience; the fine ...

Works

* Strid, Arne (1980). ''Wild flowers of Mount Olympus'' * Strid, Arne (1986). ''Mountain Flora of Greece: Volume 1'' * With Kit Tan (eds) (1991), ''Mountain Flora of Greece: Volume 2'' * With Phitos, D.; Snogerup, S. and Greuter, W. (eds) (1995), ''The Red Data Book of rare and threatened plants of Greece'' * With Kit Tan (eds) (1997), ''Flora Hellenica, Volume 1: Gymnospermae to Caryphyllaceae'' * With Kit Tan (eds) (2002), ''Flora Hellenica, Volume 2: Nymphaeaceae to Platanaceae'' * Strid, Arne (2006), ''Flora Hellenica Bibliography'' * With Kit Tan (2009), ''Wildflowers of Greece'' * With Strid, B. (eds) (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013), ''Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana. An annotated re-issue'', volumes 1-10 * With Dimopoulos, P.; Raus, T.; Bergmeier, E.; Constantinidis, Th.; Iatrou, G.; Kokkini, S. and Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). ''Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist'' * Strid, Arne (2016). ''Atlas of the Aegean Flora'' * With Erwin Bergmeier and Georgios Fotiadis (2021). Flora and Vegetation of Prespa National Park.

Eponymy

The plant

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Dichoropetalum stridii ''Dichoropetalum stridii'' is a perennial flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, endemic to NW Greece. It occurs in pastures, rocky and gravelly places on ophiolithic substrates and occasionally on schist. It is flowering from July until August ...

'', ''

Onosma stridii ''Onosma stridii'' is a perennial flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is a Greek endemic species found only at Mt. Kallidromo and Mt. Chlomo. It was named after Swede botanist Arne Strid P. Arne K. Strid (born March 7, 1943, in Kris ...

'', ''

Sagina stridii ''Sagina stridii'' is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is a Greek endemic species occurring only at high altitude at Mt. Chelmos and Mt. Killini. It was described as a new species in 2012 and was named af ...

'', ''Crocus biflorus'' subsp. ''stridii'', ''

Odontarrhena stridii ''Odontarrhena'' is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. They were originally a separate genus and then were amalgamated into the ''Alyssum'' genus, but morphological and molecular evidence has reseparated them. Some of th ...

'' and ''

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'' are named after him.

References

1943 births Living people 20th-century Swedish botanists People from Kristianstad {{authority control