> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 138](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355225) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5696-1) LSID 5696-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714748) QID Q714748 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Löfling, Pehr (Loefling) (1729-1756), Swedish botanist and explorer; to Spain 1751; from 1754-1756 in northern S. America; "Linnaei bästa discipel." **Abbreviated name**: *Loefl.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Loefl.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. – Occasional specimens in [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection MA|MA]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection SBT|SBT]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 271, 5(1): 688; Barnhart 2: 396; BM 3: 1165, 7: 738-739; Colmeiro 1: clxxxv; Dryander 1: 239, 2: 291, 339, 3: 19, 145, 187, 382, 5: 536; Frank 3(Anh.): 60; Hegi 7: 559; Herder p. 53; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Loefl."); IH 2: 455; Jackson p. 339; Kcw 3: 481; KR p. 482-483; Langman p. 452; Lasègue p. 574; PR 5564 (ed. 1: 6213); Rehder 5: 519; RS p. 116; SO 1290, 1556, 2551, add. 2908a, 3588, 3593; TL-1: 774; Tucker 1: 438; Zander ed. 10, p. 686, ed. 11, p. 782. - Almkvist, J., Sv. Linné-Sällsk. Arsskr. 8: 25-42. 1925 (diary Madrid-Cadiz 1753), 10: 131-136. 1927 (mss Spain). - Bernardi, L., Mus. Genève 198: 9.1979 (epon.) - Coats, A. M., Plant hunters 38, 339. 1969. - Christ, H., Österr. bot. Z. 62: 271-275. 1912 (on L's Spanish pl.). - Dandy, J. E., Regn. veg. 51: 16. 1967. - Eriksson, G., Bot. hist. Sverige 244, 249, 266, 300, 319. 1969. - Fries, R. E., Short hist. bot. Sweden 30-31. 1950. - Fries, Th. M.,Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(2): 371. 1908, 1(3): 340. 1909, 1(4): 363. 1910, 1(5): 363. 1911, 1(6): 443. 1912, 1(7): 191. 1917. - Gunckel, H., Rev. Univ. 43(Anal. Acad. Chil. Ci. nat. 22): 23-31. 1959. - Hulth, J. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(8): 199. 1922, 2(1): 426. 1916, 2(2): 296. 1943. - Jackson, B. D., Proc. Linn. Soc. 134 (suppl.): 18. 1922 (on L's material in LINN). - Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 300, 467. 1864. - Jourdan, Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd., 6: 93-94. 1824. - Löwegren, Y., Naturaliekabinett i Sverige 202, 357. 1952. - Lubrecht, H., Early Amer. bot. works 1867, no. 87. - Papavero, N., Essays hist. neotrop. dipterol. 1: 4-7, 36. 1971. - Rothmaler, W., Repert. sp. nov., Fedde, 49: 274-277. 1940, 53: 31. 1944 (on L's Spanish plants). - Rydén, S., Sv. Linné-Sällsk. Årsskr. 41: 36-50. 1959 (on L's mss at Madrid); Pehr Löfling. En linnélärjunge i Spanien och Venezuela 1751-1756. Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1965, 242 p.; Pedro Loefling en Venezuela (1754-1756). Madrid, Insula, 1957, 266 p.– Sec also T. Fredbärj, Sv. Linné-Sällsk. Årsskr. 49: 98-99. 1967. - Scheutz, N.J. W., Bot. Not. 1863: 70. - Stafleu, F. A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 144, 149-151. 1971. - Steele, A. R., Flowers for the king 369 \[index\]. 1964. - Willkomm, M., Grundz. Pfl.-Verbr. Iber. Halbins. 5, 26. 1896 (Veg. Erde 1). #### Note on name Krok (KR p. 482) notes that Löfling signed himself Löfling in at least one letter now at the library of the Swedish Academy of Sciences; he was registered at Uppsala as "Petrus Erici Löfling". The orthography "Loefling" was used as a latinization. This latter orthography is very generally accepted, hence our proposed abbreviation "Loefl.". #### Eponymy *Loeflingia* Linnaeus (1753). ### Publications ##### n.4920. Gemmae arborum **Title** D. A. *Gemmae arborum*, quas ex cons. experientiss. et nobiliss. facult. med. in reg. acad. upsaliensi, sub praesidio... Dn. Doct. Caroli Linnaei,... speciminis academici loco naturae curiosis examinandas sistit alumnus regius, Petrus Löfling, medelpadus. In Audit. Carol. Major. ad diem 18 Novemb. anni 1749. h.a.m.c. Upsaliae \[1749\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Gemmaearb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 18 Nov 1749, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-32. *Copies*: B, G, MO, NY. *Ed. 2*: Amoen. Acad. 2(24): \[182\]-\[224\]. 1751; for further issues in Amoenitates see SO 1557-1561. Also reprinted in Gilibert, J. E., *Syst. pl. Europ.* 5(1, 14): 363-398. 1786. Linnaeus acknowledged Loefling's authorship of this dissertation in his biography of Loefling in Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1758, p. 16 (see also KR p. 482, no. 1). ##### n.4921. Iter hispanicum **Title** Petri Loefling... *Iter hispanicum*, eller resa til spanska länderna uti Europa och America, förrättad iffrån år 1751 til år 1756, med beskrifningar och rön öfver de märkvärdigaste växter, utgifven efter dess frånfälle af Carl Linnaeus. Stockholm (Tryckt på direct. Lars Salvii Kostnad) År 1758. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Iter his pan.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1758, p. \[i-xx\], \[1\]-316, *pl. 1-2. Copies*: FI, MICH, MO, NY; IDC 886. – See Dandy (1967) for details on inadmissible names (vernacular names or token words). Facsimile ed. of botanical part (p. 176-283): *in* Loefling, P., *Plantae americanae*. Insula, Madrid, 1957, p. \[1\]-127, edited by S. Rydén. *Copies*: BR, MICH, NY. – p. 11-119 have facsimile of text p. \[175\]-283; p. 121-127 contain notes and index. *Reprint*: 1907, Mem. R. Soc. Espãn. Hist. nat. 5: 11-134. *German transi*.: 1766 (p. \[viii\]: 22 Feb 1766), p. \[i-xxxii\], \[1\]-406, \[1-2, err.\], *pl. 1-2. Copies*: G, HU, M, MO (2), NY.– "Peter Loeflings... *Reise, nach den spanischen Ländern in Europa und America* in den Jahren 1751 bis 1756. Nebst Beobachtungen und Anmerkungen über die merkwürdigen Gewächse herausgegeben von Herrn Carl von Linné... aus dem Schwedischen übersetzt durch D. Alexander Bernhard Kölpin \[1739-1801\]... Berlin und Stralsund (bey Gottlieb August Lange) 1766. Oct. *English transi*.: 1771, J. R. Forster in Bossu, Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana, 2: 69-432. 1771. *Spanish transl*: I. de Asso, Anal. Ci. nat. 3: 278-315, 4: 158-191, 5: 82-104. 1801/02.