Nils Conrad Kindberg (7 August 1832 in Karlstad – 23 August 1910 in Uppsala) was a Swedish bryologist.

From 1849 he studied at Uppsala University, earning his PhD in 1857. In 1859 he worked as a teacher in Vänersborg, then from 1860 to 1901 taught classes in natural sciences and mathematics in Linköping.

Nils Conrad Kindberg

The moss genus Kindbergia (family Brachytheciaceae) is named in his honor.

Nils Conrad Kindberg

Selected works

Monographia generis Lepigonorum (1863). Svensk flora. Beskrifning öfver Sveriges fanerogamer och ormbunkar (1877). "New Canadian mosses" (1889); with John Macoun. "Catalogue of Canadian plants. Part VI, musci"; with John Macoun (1892). "European and N. American Bryineæ (Mosses)"; 2 parts, published in English (1896). "Genera of European and Northamerican Bryineæ (Mosses) synoptically disposed" (1897). Laubmoose aus dem Umanakdistrikt (1897). Skandinavisk bladmossflora (1903). "New combinations and new taxa of mosses proposed by Nils Conrad Kindberg"; by William C. Steere and Howard A. Crum (1977).

Nils Conrad Kindberg

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19th-century Swedish botanists

20th-century Swedish botanists

1832 births

1910 deaths

Bryologists

People from Karlstad

Uppsala University alumni