Gunnar Marklund (5 June 1892 in Helsinki – 23 July 1964 also in Helsinki) was a Finnish botanist (taraxacologist and ranunculologist).
Biography
Between 1920 and 1941 he worked as a teacher. In 1937 he received his Ph.D. From 1941 to 1959 he was the curator of the Botanical Museum of the University of Helsinki.
In 1963, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the 38th volume of the
Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica was dedicated to him.
Scientific work
Overview
Gunnar Marklund specialised in two difficult apomictic groups, the genus
Taraxacum (
Taraxacum) and the
Ranunculus auricomus group (goldilock buttercups).
He published four monographs, in which he described about two hundred new
species,
among them for example
Ranunculus mendax (Markl.) Ericsson,
as well as several smaller papers.
Selected publications
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Die Taraxacum -Flora Estlands (1938)
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Die Taraxacum -Flora Nylands (1940)
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Outlines of evolution in the pseudogamous Ranunculus auricomus group in Finland (G. Marklund & A. Rousi, 1961)
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Der Ranunculus auricomus -Komplex in Finnland 1 (...) R. auricomus L. coll. (s.str.) (1961)
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Der Ranunculus auricomus -Komplex in Finnland 2 (...) R. fallax (W & Gr.) Schur, R. monophyllus Ovcz. und R. cassubicus L. (1965, posthumous work)
Eponymy
Ranunculus marklundii (Nannf. & Julin) Ericsson ≡,
a goldilock buttercup species known from Sweden and Estonia, and
Taraxacum marklundii Palmgr.,
a dandelion species described from the Åland Islands,
are named in his honour.
