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Sigrid Andersson (1868-1918) was a Swedish monocotyledon botanist.

Life
Andersson was born on January 2, 1868 in Stockholm, Sweden to Anna Elisabet Amanda Andersson and Nils Johan Andersson, the latter a botany professor at Lund University. She matriculated at Stockholm University, then called the Stockholm Högskola, in 1885. She married John G. Rissler ten years after that. Andersson died on October 31, 1918.

Scientific career
While an undergraduate at Stockholm University, Andersson researched the anatomy of monocotyledons and, in 1887, published a paper in the journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Handlingar). She graduated from Stockholm University in 1888 and went on to work at the Karolinska Institute as a histological preparator.