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Kaj Borge Vollesen

botanist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ19345043 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kaj Borge Vollesen (born 27 January 1946) is a botanist.

Education

Vollessen received his MSc (1975) in Taxonomic Botany and PhD (1982) in Taxonomy and Ecology from The University of Copenhagen.

Work

He was a Principal Scientific Officer at the Kew Gardens until his retirement in 2006 and is now an Honorary Research Fellow. His work is principally focused on the Acanthaceae and Cyperaceae families of plants.

Legacy

He is the authority for at least 327 taxa.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kaj Borge Vollesen” as botanist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 1975, 1982, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1946-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Borge, Vollesen and botanist can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as botanist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19345043. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1946, 1975, 1982 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kaj Borge Vollesen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.