> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 27](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189460) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7278-1) LSID 7278-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16650116) QID Q16650116 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Palm, Björn Torvald (1887-1956), Swedish botanist and traveller; Dr. phil. Stockholm, lecturer at the University of Stockholm 1915-1918 and 1932-1939, assistant for plant pathology at Buitenzorg, Java, 1916, director at a plant-breeding station for tobacco at Deli, Sumatra, 1920, on plantations in Guatemala 1926-1929; professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana, 1930-1932; expert of plant-pathology at Stockholm 1945-1947; travelled in Madagascar 1912-1914, in Dutch East Indies 1915-1926, in Central America and the West Indies 1926-1930. **Abbreviated name**: *Palm* \[standard form in IPNI: *Palm*\] #### Herbarium and types Types unknown; some other material at [[Collection S|S]]. #### Bibliography and biography GR p. 497; KR p. 568-569; LS suppl. 2082-20840. #### Biofile - Arwidsson, T. & Cedergren, G., Generalregister till Svensk botanisk tidskrift 1-20: 26-27. 1932. - Fries, R., A short history of botany in Sweden: 46, 97. 1950. - Lindman, S., Sv. män o. kvinn. 6: 8-9. 1949 (portr.). - Palm, B., Tropikerna var mitt liv, Stockholm 1943. 318 p. (autobiography 1912-1918); portr., 64 figs., 2 maps. - Palm, B., Farväl till tropikerna, Stockholm 1944. 309 p. (autobiography 1919-1930); portr., 56 figs., 1 map. Peterson, B., Generalregister till Svensk botanisk tidskrift 21-40: 29. 1949. #### Eponymy *Palmomyces* Maire (1926). #### Note The entry for B.T. Palm was submitted by O. Almborn. ### Publications ##### n.7230a. De embryologia generum Asteris et Solidaginis **Title** *De embryologia generum Asteris et Solidaginis*. Zur Embryologie der Gattungen Aster und Solidago. Stockholm (Isaac Marcus Boktryckeri-Aktiebolag). Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Embryol. Aster. et Solidag.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct-Dec 1914, p. \[1\]-18, 29 figs. in text. *Copy* LD. Issued as Acta Horti Berg. 5(4). ##### n.7230b. Studien über Konstruktionstypen **Title** *Studien über Konstruktionstypen* und Entwicklungswege *des Embryosackes der Angiospermen*. Inauguraldissertation mit Genehmigung der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Hochschule zu Stockholm zur öffentlichen Beurteilung vorgelegt von Björn Palm. Die Verteidigung wird am 29 Mai um 10 Uhr vormittags im Hörsaal 3 stattfinden. Stockholm (Svenska tryckeriaktiebolaget) 1915. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Stud. Embryosack. Angiosperm.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 10 Mai 1915, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-257, 53 figs. in text. *Copy*: LD. *Ref*.: Juel, O., Bot. Centralbl. 131: 146-147. 1916. ##### n.7230c. Svenska Taphrinaarter **Title** *Svenska Taphrinaarter*. Uppsala (Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri-A.-B. \[1917\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Svenska Taphrimaarter*. **Notes** *Publ*.: printed 21 Mai 1917 (ms. presented 10 Jan 1917), p. \[1\]-41, 9 figs. in text. *Copy*: LD. – Issued as Ark. Bot. 15(4) (1917) 1918. N.B.: Vol. 15, fasc. 1-2\[= nos. 1-12\] was issued 7 Oct 1918. Reprints of nos. 1-4 were probably distributed in 1917.