Ahmad Parsa

Ahmad Parsa (1907cite book |author=H. Trevor Clifford, Peter D. Bostock |title=Etymological Dictionary of Grasses |publisher=Springer |location= |year=2006 |pages=217 |isbn=3540384324 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=2008-09-23] -1997(?)) was an Iranian botanist. After obtaining his doctorate in France, he returned to Iran and became the first modern professor of Botany at Tehran in 1933. cite book |author=Frodin, D. G. |title=Guide to Standard Floras of the World: An Annotated, Geographically Arranged Systematic Bibliography of the Principal Floras, Enumerations, Checklists, and Chorological Atlases of Different Areas |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=2001 |pages=709 - 710|url=http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=aMjXCF4rmDUC&dq=%22Ahmad+Parsa%22&pg=PA709&lpg=PA709&sig=ACfU3U0xFaHY7AD5sEpOQ9g5jAbx3kEn3g&q=%22ahmad+parsa%22 |isbn=0-521-79077-8 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=] He helped establish a natural history museum with a herbarium in Tehran in 1954.cite web |author= |title=College of Science: Herbarium | url= http://www.fos.ut.ac.ir/Herbarium/tabid/2019/Default.aspx |work= University of Tehran |accessdate= 2008-09-23 ] He was originally from Tafresh in central Iran. He wrote eight volumes on the flora of Iran published in the 1950s and 60s, in which he described over 250 new species.

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* [http://www.fos.ut.ac.ir/museums/herbarium.htm]

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