de Gorter. Plant species named for S. P. Krasheninnikov More than 20 species have been named in his honour, e.g. The sedge species Carex krascheninnikovii Komarov ex Hultén, which was collected by V. L. Komarov in 1909 on the same hillock that Krasheninnikov had found it on during the Second Kamchatka Expedition. The genus Krascheninnikovia Gueldenst. (Chenopodiaceae) References External links Крашенинников, Степан Петрович. 1711 births 1755 deaths Botanists active in Siberia History of the Kamchatka Peninsula Explorers from the Russian Empire Geographers from the Russian Empire Russian anthropologists 18th-century botanists from the Russian Empire Explorers of Asia Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 18th-century geographers 18th-century explorers Great Northern Expedition Burials at Lazarevskoe Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)