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### Author
Laxman, Erich \[Erik\] (1737-1796), Finnish botanist and traveller, later at Kolywan, St. Petersburg and Nertschinsk.
**Abbreviated name**: *Laxm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Laxm.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Material from Siberia at [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection MW|MW]] and [[Collection SBT|SBT]].
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 1: 274; Backer p. 318; Barnhart 2: 353; BM 3: 1070; Dryander 1: 118, 2: 82, 87, 150, 228, 3: 174, 271, 4: 70, 197, 271; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Laxm."); Kew 3: 386; Lasègue p. 412, 503; MW p. 262, suppl. p. 194; PR (alph.) (ed. 1: 5601); Saelan p. 254-255; SO 2504a; TL-2/1: 2090, see Bergius, P. L.; TR 743-746; Tucker 1: 416; Zander ed. 10, p. 683.
- Hjelt, O. E. A., Naturhistoriens studium i Finland, Helsingfors 1878, p. 196-198 (bibl.; inf. I. Kukkonen).
- Hulth, J. M., Bref och Skrifv. Linné 1(8): 178-196. 1922, 2(1): 261-266. 1916.
- Fries, Th. M., Bref och Skrifv. Linné 1(2): 321. 1908, 1(5): 185. 1911, 1(6): 45, 64. 1912.
- Kukkonen, I. & Viljamaa, K., Herb. Christ. Steven 65. 1971.
- Laxmann, E., Sibirische Briefe, herausgeg. v. August Ludwig Schloezer. Gottingen u. Gotha 1769, 108 p.
- Raskin, N. M. & Shafranovskij, I. I. Erik Gustavovits Laksman, Leningrad 1971, 276 p. (in Russian; inf. I. Kukkonen).
- Urness, C., A naturalist in Russia 79. 1967.
#### Eponymy
*Laxmannia* J. R. Forster & J. G. A. Forster (1776, *nom. rej.*); *Laxmannia* Schreber (1791, *nom. rej.*); *Laxmannia* R. Brown (1810, *nom. cons.*)