Christian Stenhammar

Christian Stenhammar (1783-1866) was a Swedish naturalist interested in lichens and an entomologist who specialised in Diptera.His collection is held by Uppsala University.He was a clergyman.

Christian Stenhammar

Works
  • Försök till Gruppering och Revision af de Svenska Ephydrinae af Chr. Stenhammar. Stockholm , P.A. Nordstedt, 1844. online
  • Schedulæ criticæ de lichenibus exsiccatis Sueciæ (1845)
  • Lichenes Sueciæ exsiccati editio altera (åtta delar, 1856-66).
  • Skandinaviens copromyzinæ (1853)

Genera named to honor Christian Stenhammar are Stenhammara and Stenhammarella

The standard author abbreviation Stenh. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

References

Eckhard K. Groll

  1. IPNI.  Stenh.
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