> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 148](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212190) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12919-1) LSID 12919-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4983741) QID Q4983741 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Täckholm, Vivi, née Laurent (1898-1978), Swedish botanist; studied at Stockholm College; worked in the United States 1921-1923, in Sweden as journalist and editor 1923-1926; married G.V. Täckholm 1926 and joined her husband at the Botany Department of the Egyptian University (h.t. Cairo University) 1926-1929, continuing her husband's work from 1933; in Sweden 1929-1933 and 1939-1946; with Bot. Dept. Univ. Cairo 1946-1947; with the University of Alexandria 1947-1948; professor of botany at the Faculty of Science, Univ. Cairo 1948-1978; in Sweden March-May 1978. **Abbreviated name**: *Täckh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Täckh.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection CAI|CAI]] and [[Collection CAIH|CAIH]]. – Some lichens at [[Collection M|M]]; other material at [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection LD|LD]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection LD|LD]]. #### Bibliography and biography Bossert p. 392; IH 1 (ed. 1): 34, (ed. 2): 38, (ed. 3): 41, (ed. 5): 34, (ed. 6): 45; Zander ed. 11, p. 824. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Not. 1968: 457; Egyptian bot. Soc. Yearb. 3: i-iv. 1974; Gard. Chron. 183(23): 5. 1978; Optima Newsletter 7: 18. 1978 (d.). - Boulos, L., Bot. Not. 1972: 281-282 (portr., dedic); Taeckholmia 9: 5-8. 1978 (obit., bibl.); Egypt. J. Bot. 21: 155-160. 1978 (1980) (obit., bibl.). - El-Hadidi & L. Boulos, Optima Newsletter 10-11: 29-30. 1980 (obit.). - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world no. 591. 1984. - Ghabbour, S.I., Taeckholmia 9: 1-4. 1978 ("end of an era"). - Kassas, M., Publ. Cairo Univ. Herb. 7-8: 3-7. 1977 ("the woman and the subject", 80th birthday). - Krikorian, A.D., Nature 275: 574. 1978 (obit.). - Lindman, S., Sv. män. kvinn. 8: 66-67. 1955. - Söderling-Brydolf, C., Publ. Cairo Univ. Herb. 7-8: 1-2. 1977 (80th birthday). - Täckholm, V., Vivis Resa ett år som piga från New York till San Francisko, Stockholm 1923, 164 p. (biogr., not botanical). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 250, 272. 1936, 3: 237. 1937, 4: 187, 277. 1938. - Wallström, T., Sv. upptäck. 77. 1983. #### Note Publications outside our period e.g. *Husmoderns Blomsterlexikon* en uppslagsbok för hemmets och täppans prynadsväxter, Stockholm 1946-1947; *Hemmet blommar*, en liten handbok i krukväxtodling 1946; *Faraos blomster*, Stockholm 1951, *Öknen blommar*, Stockholm 1969; with M. Drar & A.A.A. Fadeel, *Student's flora of Egypt*, Cairo 1956, suppl. notes 1974, ed. 2. 1974. #### Eponymy (genus): *Taeckholmia* L. Boulos (1967); (journal): *Taeckholmia*, publications from Cairo University Herbarium. Cairo, Egypt. 9-x, 1978-x. #### Festschrift Botaniska Notiser 1972(4) (75th birthday), Publ. Cairo Univ. Herb. 1977(7, 8) (80th birthday). ### Publications ##### n.13.650. Bibliographical notes to the flora of Egypt **Title** *Bibliographical notes to the flora of Egypt*... Reprinted from Festskrift till Verner Söderberg den fjärde oktober 1932. Oct. \[Stockholm 1932\]. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1932, cover-t.p., p. 193-207, \[208\], \[i-ii\]. *copies*: B, G, Peterson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Festskrift (see above) p. 193-\[208\], add. notes i-ii, Stockholm 1932 (add. notes \[i-ii\], 1933). ##### n.13.651. Some new plants from Sinai and Egypt **Title** *Some new plants from Sinai and Egypt*... Särtryck ur Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift... 1932. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 9 Jun 1932, cover-t.p., p. \[370\]-380. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Sv. bot. Tidskr. 26(1-2): \[370\]-380. ##### n.13.652. A mummy coffin in the Egyptian Museum, Stockholm and its plant remains **Title** *A mummy coffin in the Egyptian Museum, Stockholm and its plant remains*. Särtryck ur Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift... 1940. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1940, cover-t.p., p. \[141\]-161. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Sv. bot. Tidskr. 34(2): \[141\]-161. 1940. ##### n.13.653. Flora of Egypt **Title** *Flora of Egypt*... Cairo (published by the Fouad I University) 1941-1969. 4 vols. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Egypt*. **Notes** *Authorship*: vol. 1: Vivi and Gunnar Täckholm in collaboration with Mohammed Drar; 2-4 V. Täckholm and M. Drar. *1*: 1941 (p. 13: Jun 1941), p. \[1\]-574. *2*: 1950, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-547, \[1-8\]. *3*: 1954, p. \[i\]-xii, \[xiii\], \[1\]-638, \[639-648\]. *4*: 1969, p. \[1\]-427, \[429, colo.\]. *Copies*: B, BR, G, HH, LD, M, NY, PH, U. *Facsimile reprint* vols. 1-3: 1973, ISBN 3-87429-055-7, Koenigstein-Ts. (Otto Koeltz Antiquariat). *Copy*: FAS (see Taxon 23: 417-418. 1974).