Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon

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Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon (5 June 1818, in Padua – 8 April 1897, in Milan) was an Italian botanist who specialized in cryptogamic flora.

During his career, he was a professor of natural history in Padua. In 1882 he was named president of the Accademia fisio-medica-statistica in Milan.[1][2] In 1848 he circumscribed the genus Romanoa (family Euphorbiaceae) [3] and in 1861 named the genus Speerschneidera (family Bacidiaceae).[4][5] Also, he is the taxonomic authority of the fern genera Blechnopteris, Neurosorus and Oligocampia.[6]

Selected works[]

  • Prospetto della flora euganea, 1842.
  • Le alghe del tenere udinese, 1844.
  • Nomenclator algarum, ou Collection des noms imposés aux plantes de la famille des algues, 1845.
  • Saggio di una monografia delle alghe coccotalle, 1848.
  • Caratteri di dodici nuovi generi di licheni, 1853.
  • Schema di una nuova classificazione delle epatiche, 1877.
  • L'opera lichenologica di Vittore Trevisan (1994).[7]
The standard author abbreviation Trevis. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]

See also[]

  • Category:Taxa named by Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon

References[]

  1. ^ Museo civico di storia naturale di Milano
  2. ^ Google Books Atti della Reale Accademia delle scienze di Torino, Volume 18
  3. ^ Tropicos Romanoa Trevis.
  4. ^ Index Nominum Genericorum database Speerschneidera
  5. ^ Mycobank Speerschneidera
  6. ^ IPNI List of botanical names described by Trevisan
  7. ^ OCLC Classify (published works)
  8. ^ IPNI.  Trevis.
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