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Christopher Tärnström

Swedish botanist (1711-1746) · Sweden · On the map · Scientists · Died at 35

Christopher Tärnström or Christoffer Tärnström was a Swedish naturalist and Lutheran pastor who was the first of the students or apostles of Carl Linnaeus who travelled to Southeast Asia where he died off Vietnam. The plant genus Ternstroemia was named in honor of him by Carl Linnaeus the Younger in 1782.

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