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Aug 17, 1766 Rønne, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark Died on 26 Feb 1832 (aged 65)
Danish botanist
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About Peter Schousboe
- Peter Schousboe, more fully Peter (or Peder) Kofod Ancher (or Anker) Schousboe (1766–1832) was a Danish botanist.
- He was born in 1766 in Rønne, Denmark, and died in 1832 in Tangier, Morocco, having served as Danish consul general in Tangier from 1800 onwards.
- He conducted a botanical expedition in Spain and Morocco during the years 1791-93.
- Among the plants that he was the first to describe was the popular garden flower Salvia interrupta; the bushwillow genus Schousboea (now considered a synonym of Combretum) was named in his honour.
