Carl Otto Rosendahl

Carl Otto Rosendahl
Born	1875
Died	1956 (aged 80–81)
Alma mater	University of Minnesota
Scientific career
Fields	Botany, mycology
Doctoral students	Arthur Cronquist
Author abbrev. (botany)	Rosend.

Carl Otto Rosendahl (1875–1956) was a botanist, whose areas of interest were mycology and spermatophytes. He both preceded and succeeded James Arthur Harris (1880–1930) as Head of the Department of Botany at the University of Minnesota.

Arthur Cronquist (1919–1992), a botanist known for the Cronquist system, made his doctorate at the University of Minnesota under C.O. Rosendahl, earning his PhD in 1944.

Publications

• The Problem of Subspecific Categories. Carl Otto Rosendahl, American Journal of Botany, vol. 36, no. 1, 1949

See also

• List of botanists by author abbreviation (P–S)

References

• J. Arthur Harris, Botanist and Biometrician, by C. O. Rosendahl; R. A. Gortner; G. O. Burr. (See review in Ecology, 18(2) (Apr., 1937), pp. 295–298.