Hildur Krog (22 March 1922 – 25 August 2014) was a Norwegian botanist.
She was born in Modum. She took the dr.philos. degree in 1968 with a thesis on Alaskan lichens, was hired as a curator at the Botanical Museum of Oslo in 1971 and served as professor at the University of Oslo from 1987 to 1992.[1] For 15 year from 1969 she collaborated with the British amateur lichenologist Dougal Swinscow to study the macrolichen flora of East Africa. They undertook field collections as well as characterisation and revision of the limited existing lichen knowledge of the region, presented in 33 scientific publications and a book The Macrolichens of East Africa, British Museum (Natural History) in 1988.[2]
In 1992 Hildur Krog was awarded the Acharius Medal by the International Association for Lichenology[3]
She was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[4] She died in 2014.[5]
Several lichen are named in her honour, including Krogia which a genus of corticolous lichens in the family Ramalinaceae.[6]
Also lichen species such as; Leptogium krogiae,[7]Dictyonema krogiae,[8] and Usnea krogiana.[9]
The standard author abbreviation Krog is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[10]
^Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Hildur Krog". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
^James, Peter W. (1993). "OBITUARY THOMAS DOUGLAS (DOUGAL) VICTOR SWINSCOW 10 July 1917-24 September 1992". The Lichenologist. 25 (4): 443–450. doi:10.1006/lich.1993.1008. S2CID 85577246.
^"Acharius Medallists". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^"Gruppe 5: Biologi" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
^Death announcement, Aftenposten
^Kistenich, Sonja; Rikkinen, Jouko K.; Thüs, Holger; Vairappan, Charles S.; Wolseley, Patricia A.; Timdal, Einar (2018). "Three new species of Krogia (Ramalinaceae, lichenised Ascomycota) from the Paleotropics". MycoKeys. 40 (40). Pensoft Publishers: 69–88. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.40.26025. PMC 6170524. PMID 30294209. S2CID 52925537.
^Bjelland, Torbjørg; Bendiksby, Mika; Frisch, Andreas (2017). "Geographically disjunct phylogenetic lineages in Leptogium hibernicum reveal Leptogium krogiae sp. nov. from East Africa". The Lichenologist. 49 (3): 239–251. doi:10.1017/S0024282916000645. S2CID 90234682.
^Lücking, Robert; Timdal, Einar (2016). "New species of Dictyonema and Cyphellostereum (lichenized Basidiomycota: Hygrophoraceae) from tropical Africa and the Indian Ocean, dedicated to the late Hildur Krog". Willdenowia. 46 (1): 191–199. doi:10.3372/wi.46.46115.
^Clerc, Philippe (2006). "Synopsis of Usnea (lichenized Ascomycetes) from the Azores with additional information on the species in Macaronesia". The Lichenologist. 38 (3): 191–212. doi:10.1017/S002428290600569X. S2CID 85154154.
HildurKrog (22 March 1922 – 25 August 2014) was a Norwegian botanist. She was born in Modum. She took the dr.philos. degree in 1968 with a thesis on...
lichen in the family Ramalinaceae. It was described as a new species by HildurKrog in 1990. The type specimen was collected from Pico do Facho on Porto...
Cavernularia hultenii by Swedish lichenologist Gunnar Degelius in 1937. HildurKrog transferred it to the genus Hypogymnia in 1951. Hypogymnia hultenii is...
described as a new species in 1975 by lichenologists Dougal Swinscow and HildurKrog. The lichen has a whitish to pale grey thallus that is tightly appressed...
described as a new species in 1975 by lichenologists Dougal Swinscow and HildurKrog. The lichen has a brownish-grey to lilac-grey thallus that is tightly...
new species by James Stirton in 1877 as Parmelia flaventior. In 1982, HildurKrog transferred it to the subgenus Flavopunctelia of her newly circumscribed...
Parmelia soredica by Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1872. In 1982, HildurKrog transferred it to the subgenus Flavopunctelia of her newly circumscribed...
Parmeliaceae. It was formally described as a new species in 1976 by HildurKrog. The species epithet cashmeriana refers to Jammu-Kashmir, where the type...
Parmelia praesignis by Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1872. In 1982, HildurKrog transferred it to the subgenus Flavopunctelia of her newly circumscribed...
It is named after American botanist Robert Arthur Darrow. In 1982, HildurKrog transferred it to the subgenus Flavopunctelia of her newly circumscribed...
He collected the type specimen growing on tree bark in West Virginia, HildurKrog transferred it to the newly circumscribed genus Punctelia in 1982. The...
species in 1976 by lichenologists Thomas Douglas Victor Swinscow and HildurKrog. The type specimen was collected from Mount Bwahit (Begemder, Ethiopia)...
Lücking and Einar Timdal. The type specimen was collected by Norwegian HildurKrog from a low montane rainforest in Lulandu Forest, (Iringa Urban District...
described as a new species in 1975 by lichenologists Dougal Swinscow and HildurKrog. The lichen has a whitish thallus that is tightly appressed to its substrate...
as Parmelia subrudecta. HildurKrog transferred it to the genus Punctelia in 1982. "Synonymy: Punctelia subrudecta (Nyl.) Krog". Species Fungorum. Retrieved...
in Africa. It was originally placed in the genus Parmelia by authors HildurKrog and Dougal Swinscow in 1981. The holotype collection was made in the...
in its taxonomic history, it was placed in the genus Lethariella by HildurKrog in 1976. It occurs on the Canary Islands. Several allelochemicals have...
Józef Motyka in his 1936 monograph of that genus. Norwegian botanist HildurKrog elevated the taxon to generic status in 1976. Three species of Lethariella...
assigned as the type species. The genus name of Krogia is in honour of HildurKrog (1922–2014), who was a Norwegian botanist. Krogia antillarum Timdal (2009)...
Geesteranus from the Diepwalle Forest Reserve in Cape Province, South Africa. HildurKrog transferred it to the Punctelia in 1982, when she promoted that taxon...
HildurKrog as a segregate genus from Usnea. Protousnea fibrillatae Calvelo, Stock.-Wörg., Liber. & Elix (2003) Protousnea magellanica (Mont.) Krog (1976)...
proposed for use as bioindicators of air pollution. Norwegian lichenologist HildurKrog circumscribed Punctelia in 1982. Originally, the genus contained 22 species...
lichenologist HildurKrog, "for her invaluable contributions to African lichenology". The type locality is quite rich in species, and Krog made nearly 200...
lichenologist Per Magnus Jørgensen in 2002. The genus name Kroswia honours HildurKrog (1922–2014), who was a Norwegian botanist and Thomas Douglas Victor Swinscow...
Parmeliaceae. It was formally described as a new species by Norwegian botanist HildurKrog in 1968. It has a grey to gray-green thallus with slender lobes measuring...
Flavopunctelia was originally conceived as a subgenus of Punctelia by HildurKrog in 1982; Mason Hale promoted it to generic status in 1984. Flavopunctelia...
1914 by Norwegian botanist Bernt Arne Lynge as Parmelia canaliculata. HildurKrog transferred it to the newly created subgenus Punctelia in 1982. She noted...
Massalongo". Phytologia. 28 (4): 334–339. Swinscow, Thomas Douglas Victor; Krog, Hildur (1988). Macrolichens of East Africa. London: British Museum (Natural...
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