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> [!example] See also [[Blytt, Axel Gudbrand (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Blytt, Axel Gudbrand (1843-1898), Norwegian botanist and palaeobiologist, professor of botany at Oslo, son of Matthias Numsen Blytt.
**Abbreviated name**: *A. Blytt* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Blytt*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection O|O]]; for duplicates see IH.
*Ref*.: IH 2: 80.
- Candolle, Phytographie 397. 1880.
- Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford. 134. 1964.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 5(1): 613, 12(1): 153; Barnhart 1: 205; BL 2: 631; BM 1: 180; 6: 99-100; GR p. 716; CSP7: 202, 9: \[n.v.\], 12: 91, 13; Jackson p. 334-335; Kew 1: 292; KR p. 91; LS 3116-3120, 31254-31256; Quenstedt p. 478; PR 849-850.
- Anon., Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenburg 40: civ-cv. 1898.
- Hagen, Rev. biol. 25: 103. 1898.
- Noltermann, Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 17: (225)-(230). 1899 (bibl.)
- Blytt, Handbog i Norges Flora, Oslo 1906. (frontisp. portr.)
- Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3 (2): *168. pl. 16*, 1903; 3(3): 183. 1905.
- Christensen, Danske Bot. Hist. 2: 514, 556. 1926.
- Nordhagen, Axel Blytt, Oslo 1943, 67 p. (portr., bibl., itineraries, also in Blyttia 1: 21-83. 1943).
- Kleppa, Norsk botanisk bibliografi 1814-1864, p. 319. 1973.
#### Composite works
Axel Blytt completed *Norges flora* of which his father wrote vol. 1.
#### Handwriting
Candollea 27: 329-330. 1972.
#### Eponymy (genus)
*Blyttiomyces* A. F. Bartsch (1939); (journal): *Blyttia* Norsk Botanisk Forenings Tidsskrift. Oslo. Vol. 1-x, 1943-x. (Also dedicated to his father, Matthias Numsen Blytt (1789-1862), q.v.)
### Publications
##### n.571. Haandbog i Norges flora
**Title**
*Haandbog i Norges flora*. Beskrivelse af all i Norge vildvoksende Planter med angivelse af deres udbredelse. Oslo (Kristiania) (Alb. Cammermeyer) \[1902\]-1906. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Haandb. Norges fl.*
**Notes**
|part |pages |date |Nat. Nov. |part |pages |date |Nat. Nov.|
|--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |
|1 |\[1\]-96 |1902 |Nov 1902 |5 |369-464 |1904 |Jul 1904|
|2 |97-192 |1903 |Mai 1903 |6 |465-560 |1905 |Jan 1905|
|3 |193-288 |1903 |Aug 1903 |7 |561-656 |1905 |Mai 1905|
|4 |289-368 |1904 |Mai 1904 |8 |659-780, \[i\]-xi |1906 |Jun 1906|
There are 661 illustrations. The work was left in manuscript at Blytt's death. It was posthumously published and concluded ("afsluttet") by O. Dahl with an obituary of Blytt on p. v-vii. – Final title page: "*Haandbog i Norges flora* af Axel Blytt/Efter forfatterens død afsluttet od udgivet ved Ove Dahl/med 661 illustrationer \[...\] "Kristiania (Alb. Cammermeyer) 1906. Frontisp. portr. Blytt.
*Copies*: HH, U.
*Ref*.: BM 6: 180; Kew 1: 272.