Luigi_Aloysius_Colla
Luigi Aloysius Colla
Piemontese lawyer, politician and botanist (1766–1848)
Luigi Aloysius Colla (30 April 1766 – 23 December 1848) was an Italian botanist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was a member of the Provisional Government of Savoy from December 12, 1798, to April 2, 1799, taking his turn as chairman of the government in rotation for a ten-day term.[1] In 1820 Colla described two species, Musa balbisiana and Musa acuminata, that are the basis for almost all cultivated bananas.[2] Colla was a member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.[3]