Jens Lind (botanist)

{{Short description|Danish botanist (1874–1939)}}

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(Photo: Lars Schmidt).]]

Jens Wilhelm August Lind (1 March 1874, in Nykøbing Mors – 4 October 1939, in Viborg) was a Danish apothecary, botanist and mycologist. He was a pupil of Emil Rostrup and published a full account of all fungi collected in Denmark by Rostrup. These were mainly microfungi, such as plant pathogens.{{cite book | last1=Lind| first1=Jens | year=1913 | title=Danish fungi, as represented in the herbarium of E. Rostrup | url=https://archive.org/details/danishfungiasrep00lind| publisher=Gyldendalske Boghandel - Nordisk Forlag| place=Copenhagen | pages =[https://archive.org/details/danishfungiasrep00lind/page/n13 650]}} He also wrote accounts on microfungi from Greenland and elsewhere, mainly based on collections made by other persons on expeditions, e.g. Gjøa expedition

{{cite journal | last1=Lind | first1=Jens | year=1910 | title=Fungi (Micromycetes) collected in arctic North America by the Gjøa Expedition 1904-1906 | journal= Skrifter / Norske Videnskaps-akademi i Oslo. I. Matematisk-naturvidenskapelig Klasse |series=New Series| issue=9| pages=1–25}} and the Second Thule Expedition.{{cite journal | last1=Lind | first1=Jens | year=1924 | title=Fungi collected on the North-Coast of Greenland by late Dr. Th. Wulff (Second Thule Expedition to the North Coast of Greenland 1916-18 led by Knud Rasmussen)| journal= Meddelelser om Grønland | volume= 64 | issue=12| pages=289–304}}

Combining his pharmaceutical and mycological knowledge, he was early in experimenting on chemical control of plant pathogens and recommending it to other practitioners.

He also - together with Knud Jessen - wrote an account on the immigration history of weeds to Denmark.{{cite book | last1=Jessen| first1=Knud | last2=Lind| first2=Jens | year=1922 | title=Det danske Markukrudts Historie| language=Danish|trans-title=History of Danish Arable Weeds| series= Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter - Naturvidenskabelig og Mathematisk Afdeling, 8.Rk. | volume=8| pages=496}}

Example of a species named by Lind: Triposporium myrti, now known as Tripospermum myrti (Capnodiaceae).

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