P. Arne K. Strid (born March 7, 1943, in Kristianstad, Sweden) is a Swedish botanist and expert on Greek flora.
P. Arne K. Strid (born March 7, 1943, in Kristianstad, Sweden) is a Swedish botanist and expert on Greek flora.
He studied botany, chemistry and genetics in the University of Lund 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) for which he also won the Jesse M. Greenman prize for the best dissertation about scientific classification of plants that year.
He was professor of botany (1973-2001) at the University of Copenhagen and distinguished visiting professor at the University of Patras, Greece (1997-1998). He was director of the Gothenburg Botanical Garden and the Natural History Museum of Göteborg (2001-2008). In 2011 he became emeritus professor at the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, [1] in 2015 at the University of Patras, Greece and from 2017 at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is also emeritus professor at the University of Lund and the University of Copenhagen.
Besides Greece, Strid has worked and named new plant species in Turkey, Australia and South Africa.
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.
The plant taxa Dichoropetalum stridii , Onosma stridii , Sagina stridii , Crocus biflorus subsp. stridii, Odontarrhena stridii and Astragalus stridii are named after him.
Lilium candidum, the Madonna lily or white lily, is a plant in the true lily family. It is native to the Balkans and Middle East, and naturalized in other parts of Europe, including France, Italy, and Ukraine, and in North Africa, the Canary Islands, Mexico, and other regions. It has been cultivated since antiquity, for at least 3,000 years, and has great symbolic value since then for many cultures. It is susceptible to several virus diseases common to lilies, and especially to Botrytis fungus. One technique to avoid problems with viruses is to grow plants from seed instead of bulblets.
The sand leek, also known as rocambole and Korean pickled-peel garlic, is a Eurasian species of wild onion with a native range extending across much of Europe, Middle East, and Korea. The species should not be confused with rocambole garlic, which is A. sativum var. ophioscorodon.
Alyssoides is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae containing a single species, Alyssoides utriculata. A herbaceous perennial plant native to Southern Europe and Turkey, it grows on dry rocky slopes and on calcareous rocks, reaching heights of 20 to 50 cm and blooming with yellow flowers between April and May–July.
Tulipa clusiana, the lady tulip, is an Asian species of tulip native to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and the western Himalayas. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental and is reportedly naturalized in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Tunisia, Greece, and Turkey.
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 finely crafted and illustrated work was of both scientific and horticultural interest.
Achillea ageratifolia, the Balkan yarrow or Greek yarrow, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to Greece and Bulgaria. Growing to 20 cm (7.9 in) tall and broad, it is a compact herbaceous perennial. It is a highly variable species, with three recognized subspecies. They have erect, simple, somewhat woody based stems. The narrow grey-green foliage resembles that of a related genus Ageratum, hence the Latin specific epithet ageratifolia. The solitary, daisy-like composite flower heads are white with yellow centres and about 2–3 cm across. They appear May–July in the northern hemisphere.
Hymenonema is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae endemic to Greece. On each of the single or few stems, the species have one to three flowerheads consisting of yellow or yolk yellow ligulate florets, scaly pappus, greyish, pinnately segmented leaves in a basal rosette, and few smaller leaves on the 20–70 cm high stems. It contains two species: Hymenonema graecum, that is known from the Cyclades, and Hymenonema laconicum, which occurs in the central and south-eastern Peloponnesos.
Lilium chalcedonicum is a European species of Liriotypus lily, native to Tuscany, Greece and Albania.
P. Hans B. Runemark was a Swedish botanist and lichenologist, emeritus professor at Lund University.
Geum coccineum is a species of flowering plant in the genus Geum, in the rose family Rosaceae. Native to the mountains of the Balkans and northern Turkey, it is also grown ornamentally for its bright red flowers.
Tulipa saxatilis is a Greek and Turkish species of plant in the genus Tulipa of the family Liliaceae.
Lilium rhodopeum is a European species of plants in the lily family. It is endemic to the Rhodopi Mountains of Bulgaria and Greece, where it is found in alpine meadows and on mountain slopes. It is as critically endangered and listed as an IUCN red list threatened species. This Balkan endemic can be found in Bulgaria and Greece where it is native to the Rhodopi mountains from which it takes it name.
Tulipa agenensis is a Middle Eastern species of flowering plant in the family Liliaceae. It is native to Turkey, Iran, Cyprus, the Aegean Islands, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and naturalized in the central and western Mediterranean.
Iris hellenica is a plant species in the genus Iris and the subgenus Iris. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from Saitas Mountain, in the Peloponnese Region of Greece. It has grey-green, sickle-shaped leaves, a tall slender stem, 2–3 white, lavender-blue, lilac or purple flowers and orange/purple beards. It was thought once to be a hybrid species of Iris germanica which also grows in the same area, before being separated into 2 species. It has only recently been published and is rarely cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions.
Elli Stamatiadou was a successful amateur Greek botanist.
Sorbus graeca, also known as the Greek whitebeam and fan-leaved service-tree is a species of whitebeam, member of the genus Sorbus in the rose family (Rosaceae).
Acis ionica is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, native from south-western Albania to western Greece. It was initially confused with what is now Acis valentina, a species found in Spain near Valencia.
Patricia Holmgren is an American botanist. Holmgren's main botanical interests are the flora of the U.S. intermountain west and the genera Tiarella and Thlaspi. Holmgren was the director of the herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden from 1981–2000, and editor of Index Herbariorum from 1974–2008.
Alyssum minutum is a species of flowering plant in the genus Alyssum, family Brassicaceae, native to the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe.
Lutzia cretica is a species of herbaceous plant endemic to the Aegean Islands of Greece. It is the only species in the genus Lutzia, which belongs to the cabbage family Brassicaceae.
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