Peter Schousboe

Peter Schousboe (1766–1832) was a Danish botanist. ^[1]

Biography

Peder Kofod Anker Schousboe was born in Rønne, Denmark and died in Tangier, Morocco, having served as Danish consul general in Tangier from 1800 onwards. He conducted a botanical expedition in Spain 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 genus Schousboea (now considered a synonym of Combretum) was named in his honour.^[2] In 1883 the botanist Jean-Louis Kralik issued an exsiccata under the title Algae Schousboeanae distributing specimens collected by Schousboe.^[3]

References

1. "Schousboe, Peter Kofod Anker, 1766-1832". Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
2. "Schousboe, Peder Kofod Anker". Salmonsens konversationsleksikon. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
3. "Algae Schousboeanae: IndExs ExsiccataID=2117093375". IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
4. International Plant Names Index. Schousb.

External links

• Biographical information about Schousboe on the website of the Herbarium of the University of Göttingen