Hildur Krog

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]

In 1992 Hildur Krog was awarded the Acharius Medal by the International Association for Lichenology[2]

She was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[3] She died in 2014.[4]

Several lichen species are named in her honour, including Leptogium krogiae,[5] Dictyonema krogiae,[6] and Usnea krogiana.[7]

References
  1. Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Hildur Krog". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  2. "Acharius Medallists". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. "Gruppe 5: Biologi" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  4. Death announcement, Aftenposten
  5. Bjelland, Torbjørg; Bendiksby, Mika; Frisch, Andreas (2017). "Geographically disjunct phylogenetic lineages in Leptogium hibernicum reveal Leptogium krogiae sp. nov. from East Africa". Lichenologist. 49 (3): 239–251. doi:10.1017/S0024282916000645.
  6. 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.
  7. Clerc, Philippe (2006). "Synopsis of Usnea (lichenized Ascomycetes) from the Azores with additional information on the species in Macaronesia". Lichenologist. 38 (3): 191–212. doi:10.1017/S002428290600569X.
  8. IPNI.  Krog.


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