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Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint Léon

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Name
  
Vittore Antonio

Role
  
Author

Died
  
1897


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. In 1848 he circumscribed the genus Romanoa (family Euphorbiaceae) and in 1861 named the genus Speerschneidera (family Bacidiaceae). Also, he is the taxonomic authority of the fern genera Blechnopteris, Neurosorus and Oligocampia.

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).

    • References

    Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon Wikipedia
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