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Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon

Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon

Italian botanist

"Trevis." redirects here. For other uses, see Trevis (disambiguation).

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] In 1888, he circumscribed the (Algae) genus Nocardia (family Nocardiaceae) that is now classed as a bacteria.[6] Also, he is also the taxonomic authority of the fern genera Blechnopteris (synonym of Blechnum L.[7]), Neurosorus (synonym of Coniogramme Fée,[8])and Oligocampia (synonym of Athyrium Roth[9]).[10]

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).[11]
The standard author abbreviation Trevis. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[12]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Paola Zocchi. "Il Museo civico di storia naturale di Milano" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 17, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  2. [2]
    Google Books Atti della Reale Accademia delle scienze di Torino, Volume 18
  3. [3]
    Tropicos Romanoa Trevis.
  4. [4]
    Index Nominum Genericorum database Speerschneidera
  5. [5]
    Mycobank Speerschneidera
  6. [6]
    Lu SH, Qian ZW, Mou PP, Xie L (November 2020). "Clinical Nocardia species: Identification, clinical characteristics, and antimicrobial susceptibility in Shandong, China". Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences. 20 (4): 531–538. doi:10.17305/bjbms.2020.4764. PMC 7664795. PMID 32415818.
  7. [7]
    "Blechnopteris Trevis". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  8. [8]
    "Neurosorus Trevis". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  9. [9]
    "Oligocampia Trevis". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  10. [10]
    IPNI List of botanical names described by Trevisan
  11. [11]
    OCLC Classify (published works)
  12. [12]
    International Plant Names Index.  Trevis.
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