Ingeborg Markgraf-Dannenberg (18 March 1911 – 22 March 1996) was a Swiss naturalist, botanist, taxonomist, and teacher noted for her work at the Institute for Systematic Botany at the University of Zurich, in particular her work classifying the genus Festuca.[1][2] She described over 120 species, and the grass Festuca markgrafiae was named in her honor.[3][4] The standard author abbreviation Markgr.-Dann. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5][6][7]
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She was born in Berlin, and was married to the botanist Friedrich Markgraf. She died in Zürich, aged 85.
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