Peter Schousboe (1766–1832) was a Denmark botany.
Biography
Peder Kofod Anker Schousboe was born in Rønne, Denmark and died in
Tangier,
Morocco, having served as Danish
consul general in Tangier from 1800 onwards. He conducted a botanical expedition in
Spain and Morocco during the years 1791-93. In 1800, he published his major work
Om Væxtriget i Marokko. Among the plants that he was the first to describe was the popular garden flower
Salvia interrupta; the bushwillow
genus Schousboea (now considered a synonym of
Combretum) was named in his honour.
In 1883 the botanist Jean-Louis Kralik issued an
exsiccata under the title
Algae Schousboeanae distributing specimens collected by Schousboe.
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