IN MEMORIAM: OLGA DMITRIEVNA NIKIFOROVA (1950-2023)
Svetlana V. Ovchinnikova, Irina N. Shekhovtsova
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: scientific activity, CSBG SB RAS, taxonomy, Flora of Siberia, new taxa, Poaceae, Fabaceae, Brassicaceae, Boraginaceae
Abstract
On February 15, 2023, Olga Dmitrievna Nikiforova, a well-known taxonomist of Siberian vascular plants, Doctor of Biological Sciences, a real ascetic of science and a person of great soul, passed away. All scientific activities of O.D. Nikiforova is associated with the Central Siberian Botanical Garden of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. For the multi-volume edition “Flora of Siberia” she studied the morphology, geography and ecology of more than 200 species from the families Poaceae, Fabaceae, Brassicaceae, Boraginaceae. She is the author of 114 scientific publications. In the study of the flora of Siberia and neighboring states, she described 24 new species and subspecies, 50 new sections, subsections and series in the system of genera Vicia, Mertensia, Myosotis.
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