Sandro Pignatti
Alessandro "Sandro" Pignatti (born 28 September 1930) is an Italian botanist specialising in pteridophytes and spermatophytes.[1] The Australian plant species Calectasia pignattiana was named after him. On 31 May 1991 Pignatti received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.[2] He is a Honorary Member of the International Association for Vegetation Science (1997).[3]
The specific epithet of the Western Australian plant species, Calectasia pignattiana honoured "Professors Erika and Alessandro Pignatti of Rome on the occasion of their seventieth birthdays".[4]
References[]
- ^ "Author Details". The International Plant Name Index. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- ^ http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/traditions/prizes/honorary-doctorates/
- ^ http://iavs.org/Awards/Honorary-Members.aspx
- ^ Barrett, Russell L.; Dixon, Kingsley W. (2001). "A Revision of the Genus Calectasia (Calectasiaceae) with eight new species describe from south-west Western Australia". Nuytsia. 13 (3): 446. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ^ IPNI. Pignatti.
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- Italian botanists
- 1930 births
- Living people
- European botanist stubs
- Italian biologist stubs