# Ahmad Parsa

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Iranian botanist (1907–1997)

**Ahmad Parsa** (1907 in [Tafresh](/source/Tafresh), Iran[1] – July 4, 1997 in California) was an Iranian [botanist](/source/Botanist). After obtaining his doctorate in France, he returned to Iran and became the first modern professor of Botany at Tehran in 1933.[2] He helped establish a natural history museum with a herbarium in Tehran in 1954.[3] 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,[4] including *[Parsana](/source/Parsana)*, a [monotypic](/source/Monotypic) genus of [flowering plants](/source/Flowering_plant) from Iran belonging to the family [Urticaceae](/source/Urticaceae).[5]

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

The standard [author abbreviation](/source/List_of_botanists_by_author_abbreviation_(A)) Parsa is used to indicate this person as the author when [citing](/source/Author_citation_(botany)) a [botanical name](/source/Botanical_name).[6]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-grasses_1-0)** [Clifford, H. Trevor](/source/Trevor_Clifford); Bostock, Peter D. (2006). *Etymological Dictionary of Grasses*. Springer. p. 217. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-540-38432-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-540-38432-4).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-guide_2-0)** Frodin, D. G. (2001). [*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*](https://books.google.com/books?id=aMjXCF4rmDUC&q=%22ahmad+parsa%22&pg=PA709). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 709–710. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-521-79077-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-79077-8).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-herbarium_3-0)** ["College of Science: Herbarium"](https://web.archive.org/web/20081228070309/http://www.fos.ut.ac.ir/Herbarium/tabid/2019/Default.aspx). *University of Tehran*. Archived from [the original](http://www.fos.ut.ac.ir/Herbarium/tabid/2019/Default.aspx) on 2008-12-28. Retrieved 2008-09-23.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Parsa, Ahmed (Ahmad) | International Plant Names Index"](https://www.ipni.org/a/12724-1). *www.ipni.org*. [International Plant Names Index](/source/International_Plant_Names_Index). Retrieved 8 November 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["*Parsana* Parsa & Maleki | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science"](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40928-1). *Plants of the World Online*. Retrieved 22 May 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [International Plant Names Index](/source/International_Plant_Names_Index). [*Parsa*](https://www.ipni.org/search?q=author%20std%3AParsa).

## Other sources

- [\[1\]](https://web.archive.org/web/20070813210300/http://www.fos.ut.ac.ir/museums/herbarium.htm)

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