> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 38](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120169) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/171-1) LSID 171-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1094656) QID Q1094656 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Alströmer, Clas (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Alströmer, Clas (1778: friherre, baron) \[von\] (1736-1794), Swedish naturalist, pupil of Linnaeus. **Abbreviated name**: *Alstr.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Alstr.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection S|S]]; the Alströmer herbarium, together with the herbaria of Montin, Osbeck, Casström and Swaitz constitutes the basis of S. Material collected 1760-1762 in Southern Europe is also at [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection SBT|SBT]] and [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (Thunberg herbarium). Curators of the Alströmer herbarium and natural history cabinet at Christinedal near Gothenburg were Jonas Fagraeus, Anders Dahl and C.B. Rutström. The Linnaean material originally contained in the Alströmer herbarium (via Dahl from L. and directly from Linnaeus fil. to A. in 1783) is now kept separately as the Stockholm Linnaean herbarium. *Ref*.: IH 2: 33. - Lindmann, Ark. f. Bot. 7(3): 5-9. 1907. - Löwegren, Naturaliekabinett i Sverige under 1700 – talet 400 \[index\]. 1952. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 427; Barnhart 1: 45; Bossert p. 9; Colmeiro 1: clx; Dawson p. 16; KR p. 29; PR (ed. 1): 172, 173; SO add. 2491. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist.-nat. Banks 5: 137 \[index\]. 1800. - Scheutz, Bot. Not. 1863: 66. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 28. 1903, 3(3): 3. 1905. - Fries, Bref och Skr. Linné ser. 2. 1: 69. - Fries, Linné 2: 61, 62 (portr.) - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 19. 1936. - Utterstöm, Svenska män och Kvinnor 1: 75. 1955. - Ryden, The Banks Collection, Stockholm. 116 \[index\]. 1963. - Stafleu, Adanson 1: 129-130. 1963. - Coats, The plant hunters 38. 1969. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 298. 1971. #### Eponymy *Alstroemeria* Linnaeus (1762).