Rolf Santesson

Rolf Santesson (1916–2013), Swedish lichenologist.

Botanical Museum, Uppsala, Sweden. Honored with an Acharius Medal in 1992.

IPNI standard form: R.Sant.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 25 taxon names authored by Rolf Santesson

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Santesson, R. 1942. The South American Menegazziae. Arkiv för Botanik 30A(11): 1–35.Reference page. 
• Santesson, R. 1942. Two interesting new species of the lichen genus Parmelia. Botaniska Notiser 1942 [95] (3): 325–330. Mattick Rec.# 16978 – Recent Literature on Lichens RLL (PDF) Reference page. 
• Santesson, R. 1952. Foliicolous Lichens. I. A revision of the taxonomy of the obligately foliicolous, lichenized fungi. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 12(1): 1–590. Reference page. 
• Santesson, R. & Culberson, W.L. 1966. The Typification of the Homonymic Generic Names Platisma (Platysma) Proposed for Lichens. The Bryologist 69(1): 100–104. DOI: 10.2307/3240489 . JSTOR . Reference page. 
• Santesson, R. 1968. Lavar. Some aspects of lichen taxonomy. Svensk Naturvetenskap (Yearbook of the Swedish Natural Science Research Council) 21: 176–184. RLL List # 76 / Rec.# 16279 – Recent Literature on Lichens Reference page. 
• Santesson, R., Moberg, R., Nordin, A., Tønsberg, T. & Vitikainen, O. 2004. Lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi of Fennoscandia. 359 pp. Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Uppsala. ISBN 91-972863-6-2 Reference page. 
• Santesson, R. 2004. Two new species of Thamnolia. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 34(1): 393–397. Reference page. 
• Hawksworth, D.L., Santesson, R. & Tibell, L. 2011. Racoleus, a new genus of sterile filamentous lichen-forming fungi from the tropics, with observations on the nomenclature and typification of Cystocoleus and Racodium. IMA Fungus 2(1): 71–79. DOI: 10.5598/imafungus.2011.02.01.10 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

Links

• Rolf Santesson: Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi of Sweden and Norway ISBN 919712558X
• Biography at lichenology.org