Ahmad Parsa

{{Short description|Iranian botanist (1907–1997)}} '''Ahmad Parsa''' (1907 in [[Tafresh]], Iran<ref name="grasses">{{cite book|author=Clifford|first=H. Trevor|title=Etymological Dictionary of Grasses|last2=Bostock|first2=Peter D.|publisher=Springer|year=2006|isbn=3-540-38432-4|location=|page=217|doi=|oclc=|author-link=Trevor Clifford}}</ref> – July 4, 1997 in California) 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.<ref name = "guide">{{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=https://books.google.com/books?id=aMjXCF4rmDUC&q=%22ahmad+parsa%22&pg=PA709 |isbn=0-521-79077-8 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref> He helped establish a natural history museum with a herbarium in Tehran in 1954.<ref name="herbarium">{{cite web|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 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228070309/http://www.fos.ut.ac.ir/Herbarium/tabid/2019/Default.aspx |archivedate=2008-12-28 }}</ref> He wrote eight volumes on the flora of Iran published between 1943 and 1959, in which he described over 250 new species. He has also formally published 280 names,<ref>{{cite web |title=Parsa, Ahmed (Ahmad) {{!}} International Plant Names Index |url=https://www.ipni.org/a/12724-1 |website=www.ipni.org |publisher=[[International Plant Names Index]] |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref> including ''[[Parsana]]'', a [[monotypic]] genus of [[flowering plant]]s from Iran belonging to the family [[Urticaceae]].<ref>{{cite web |title=''Parsana'' Parsa & Maleki {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40928-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=22 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

Ahmad Parsa is survived by two daughters, and three sons. Flora Stay D.D.S., Vida Parsa, Cyrus Parsa, M.D., Kooros Parsa, M.D., and Dariush Parsa, M.D.

==Standard author abbreviation== {{botanist|Parsa|inline=true}}

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==Other sources== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070813210300/http://www.fos.ut.ac.ir/museums/herbarium.htm]

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