Peter Schousboe (1766–1832) was a Danish

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Biography

Peder Kofod Anker Schousboe was born in

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, Denmark and died in

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, having served as Danish

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in Tangier from 1800 onwards. He conducted a botanical expedition in

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and Morocco during the years 1791-93. In 1800, he published his major work ''Om Væxtriget i Marokko''. Among the plants that he was the first to describe was the popular garden flower '' Salvia interrupta''; the bushwillow

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''Schousboea'' (now considered a synonym of ''

Combretum ''Combretum'', the bushwillows or combretums, make up the type genus of the family Combretaceae. The genus comprises about 272 species of trees and shrubs, most of which are native to Tropics, tropical and southern Africa, about 5 to Madagascar ...

'') was named in his honour.

References

External links

Biographical information about Schousboe
on the website of the Herbarium of the

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