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Carl Otto Rosendahl (1875–1956) was a
botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
, whose areas of interest were
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and
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s. He both preceded and succeeded James Arthur Harris (1880–1930) as Head of the Department of Botany at the
University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...
.
Arthur Cronquist Arthur John Cronquist (March 19, 1919 – March 22, 1992) was an American biologist, botanist and a specialist on Compositae. He is considered one of the most influential botanists of the 20th century, largely due to his formulation of the Cr ...
(1919–1992), a botanist known for the
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, made his doctorate at the University of Minnesota under C.O. Rosendahl, earning his PhD in 1944.


Publications

* The Problem of Subspecific Categories. Carl Otto Rosendahl, ''American Journal of Botany'', vol. 36, no. 1, 1949


See also

* List of botanists by author abbreviation (P–S)


References

* J. Arthur Harris, Botanist and Biometrician, by C. O. Rosendahl; R. A. Gortner; G. O. Burr. (See review in Ecology, 18(2) (Apr., 1937), pp. 295–298. American botanists 1875 births 1956 deaths American mycologists {{US-botanist-stub