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### Author
Christensen, Carl Frederik Albert (1872-1942) Danish botanist.
**Abbreviated name**: *C. Chr.* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.Chr.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Original fern herbarium at [[Collection BM|BM]]; 12.000 duplicates at [[Collection C|C]].
*Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 357, 2: 126.
- Alston, Proc. Linn. Soc. London 156: 202. 1944/5.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 345; BFM 2319; BL 1: 31, 100, 114, 127; BM 6: 205; Bossert p. 74; GR p. 681-682; IF p. 689, suppl. 1: 79, 2: 35, 3: 204-206, 4: 313 (bibl.); Kew 1: 549-550; KR p. 121; MW p. 78.
- Benedict, Amer. Fern J. 2(2): 51-57. 1912.
- Christensen, Dansk bot. lit. 1: 195. 1924 (portr.).
- Looser, Rev. argent. Agron. 10: 279-280. 1943.
- Paulsen, Naturens Verden, Kjöbenhavn 27: 1-4. 1943.
- Petersen, Bot. Tidsskr. 46(2): 177-179. 1943.
- Gagnepain, Fl. Indochine, tom. prél. 38. 1944.
- Alston, Proc. Linn. Soc. London 156: 202. 1944/5.
- Pichi-Sermolli, Nuovo Giorn. bot. Ital. ser 2. 53(1-2): 403-404. 1946.
- Stafleu, Taxon 22: 465-473. 1973.
- Lawalrée, Natura mosana 26(4): 113-116. 1973 (corr.).
- Hansen, Bot. Tidsskr. 69(2/3): 207. 1974.
- Holttum, Taxon 24: 499-500. 1975.
#### Note
A complete bibliography of Christensen's pteridological work is given in his *Index filicum*, main vol. and supplements.
#### Eponymy
*Christensenia* Maxon (1905).
### Publications
##### n.1128. Index filicum
**Title**
*Index filicum* sive enumeratio omnium generum specierumque Filicum et Hydropteridum ab anno 1753 ad finem anni 1905 descriptorum adjectis synonymis principalibus, area geographica etc. Kjöbenhavn (H. Hagerup) \[1905\]-1906. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Index filic.*
**Notes**
|pages |dates | |pages |dates | |pages |dates|
|--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |
|\[i\]-\[ix\] |10 Oct 1906 |  |257-320 |18 Nov 1905 |  |577-640 |2 Jul 1906|
|\[1\]-64 |5 Mai 1905 |  |321-384 |30 Dec 1905 |  |641-720 |20 Aug 1906|
|65-128 |1 Jul 1905 |  |385-448 |12 Feb 1906 |  |721-744 |10 Oct 1906|
|129-192 |20 Aug 1905 |  |449-512 |1 Apr 1906 |  |\[xiii\]-lix |10 Oct 1906|
|193-256 |2 Oct 1905 |  |513-576 |19 Mai 1906|
*Supplementum 1906-1912*: 20 Dec 1913, p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-131, \[132, corr.\] Kjøbenhavn (H. Hagerup)
*Supplément préliminaire* pour les années 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, Publié auz frais de S.A.I. Le Prince Bonaparte membre de l'Institut: Oct-Dec 1917, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-60 (Nat. Nov. Jun 1918). Kjøbenhavn (Triers Bogtrykkeri).
*Supplementum tertium* pro annis 1917-1933: Oct 1934, p. \[1\]-219. Kjøbenhavn (H. Hage rup).
*Supplementum quartum* pro annis 1934-1960 prepared by Rodolpho E. G. Pichi-Sermolli \[et coll.\]: Jan 1965, Utrecht, p. \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-370, *Regnum vegetabile* vol. 37.
*Copy*: U (including supplements).
*Facsimile ed*.: Koenigstein (Otto Koeltz) 1973, ISBN 3-87429-048-4 and 3-87429-049-2.
*Copy*: FAS.
*Note*: The main work and supplements contain extensive pteridological bibliographies, called *Catalogus literaturae*, referred to in this work as IF. *Main work*: 671-744; *Supplement 1906-1912*: 82-86; *Supplement* \[2\]: 34-39; *Supplement*: 201-219; *Supplement 4*: 311-349.
*Ref*.: BFM 2319; BM 6: 205; Kew 1: 549; KR p. 121; MW p. 79.
- Stafleu, Taxon 22: 465-466. 1973.
##### n.1129. A monograph of the genus Dryopteris
**Title**
*A monograph of the genus Dryopteris*. København (Andr. Fred. Høst & Son) 1912 \[1913\]-1919\[1920\], 2 parts. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Monogr. Dryopteris*.
**Notes**
1: Jan-Jun 1913 (t.p. 1912; Nat. Nov. Jul 1913, IF suppl. 1: 79 "1913"), p. \[i\], \[1\]-230, alt. \[55-282\]. *Copy*: U. – D. Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter ser. 7, nat. mat. afd. 10(2).
2: Jan-Sep 1920 (t.p. 1911; Nat. Nov. Oct 1920, IF suppl. 3: 205 "1920"), p. \[1\]-132.
*Copy*: U. – D. Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter ser. 8, nat. mat. afd. 6(1).
"I regard Christensen's monograph of "Dryopteris" as the first modern work of fern taxonomy..." (Holttum).
*Ref*.: Holttum, Taxon 24: 499-500. 1975.