Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt

{{Short description|Swedish botanist (1856–1934)}}

Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt (8 February 1856, Linköping – 2 October 1934, Lidingö) [http://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/static/database/sammlerdetails_de.php?id=819 Zurich herbaria] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311105554/http://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/static/database/sammlerdetails_de.php?id=819 |date=2014-03-11 }} Biographical sketch was a Swedish botanist who worked at the Bergianska Trädgården and Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet in Stockholm. In 1907 he received his honorary doctorate.

Dahlstedt specialized in research of the plant genera Taraxacum and Hieracium, of which he circumscribed many species.[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Dahlst.&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI] List of taxa described and co-described by Dahlstedt The botanical genus Dahlstedtia from the subfamily Faboideae is named in his honor, as are taxa with the specific taxa of dahlstedtii, an example being Taraxacum dahlstedtii, a plant sometimes referred to as "Dahlstedt's dandelion".[https://data.nbn.org.uk/Taxa/NHMSYS0000464201 NBN Gateway] Taraxacum dahlstedtii Dahlstedt edited several exsiccata series focussed on Hieracium and Taraxacum specimens, namely Herbarium Hieraciorum Scandinaviae distributed from 1892 until 1911 and Taraxaca Scandinavica exsiccata.{{cite web |title=Herbarium Hieraciorum Scandinaviae: IndExs ExsiccataID=90694528 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=90694528 |access-date=24 November 2024}}{{cite web |title=Taraxaca Scandinavica exsiccata: IndExs ExsiccataID=47856768 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=47856768 |access-date=24 November 2024}}Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.