Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon
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]
References
- ↑ Museo civico di storia naturale di Milano
- ↑ Google Books Atti della Reale Accademia delle scienze di Torino, Volume 18
- ↑ Tropicos Romanoa Trevis.
- ↑ Index Nominum Genericorum database Speerschneidera
- ↑ Mycobank Speerschneidera
- ↑ IPNI List of botanical names described by Trevisan
- ↑ OCLC Classify (published works)
- ↑ IPNI. Trevis.
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