> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 89](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120220) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/378-1) LSID 378-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q329835) QID Q329835 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Bäck, Abraham (1713-1795), Swedish amateur botanist, friend of Linnaeus and chief-physician to the king of Sweden who pronounced the funeral oration on Linnaeus at the Swedish Academy of Sciences **Abbreviated name**: *Bäck* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bäck*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection UPS|UPS]]; acquired in 1914 from a descendant of Bäck. The herbarium was damaged by damp and insects to such an extent that only a part of it is actually preserved. Localities, habitats, names of collectors, dates are not given. Several of the plants from the Cape must have been collected by Thunberg, others were acquired from Linnaeus and Linnaeus fil. The Forster plants received by Bäck are in the Linnean herbarium. *Ref*.: Juel, Sv. Linné-Sällsk. Årsskr. 7: 68-82. 1924. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 101. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist.-nat. Banks 3: 303, 539. 1800. - Scheutz, Bot. Not. 1863: 67. - Müller, Sv. Linné-Sällsk Årsskr. 4: 80-112. 1921. - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 50. 1936. #### Eponymy *Baeckea* Linnaeus (1753).