Carlo Allioni

Italian physician and professor of botany (1728–1804)

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Carlo Allioni (23 September 1728 in Turin – 30 July 1804 in Turin) was an Italian physician and professor of botany at the University of Turin.^[1] His most important work was Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii^{[citation needed]} 1755, a study of the plant world in Piedmont, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown.^{[citation needed]} In 1766, he published the Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium.

Career

In April, 1758 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[2]

He was appointed extraordinary professor of botany at the University of Turin in 1760 and was also the director of the Turin Botanical Garden. The journal Allionia: bollettino dell' istituto ed orto botanico dell' università di Torino is named after him.^[3]

First Pehr Löfling and then Linnaeus named the New World herb genus Allionia (Nyctaginaceae) after Allioni.^[3]^[4] Per Axel Rydberg named the genus Allioniella (now a taxonomic synonym for Mirabilis), after him.

Also named after him are:

Arabis allionii
Jovibarba allioni
Primula allioni
Veronica allionii

Selected works

Flora Pedemontana, sive, Enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii, Turin, 1755.
Stirpium praecipuarum litoris et agri Nicaensis, Turin, 1755.
- Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis enumeratio methodica (in Latin). Paris: Jean Baptiste Claude Bauche (2.). 1757.
Auctarium ad floram Pedemontanam cum notis et emendationibus (1789)
Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis Enumeratio methodica cum Elencho aliquot anirnalium ejusdem maris (1757)

The standard author abbreviation All. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[5]

References

^ Bailey, L. H.; Miller, Wilhelm; et al. (1900). "Abbreviations". Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation of Horticultural Plants, Descriptions of the Species of Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers and Ornamental Plants Sold in the United States and Canada, Together with Geographical and Biographical Sketches In Four Volumes. v.1 A-D. The Macmillan Company. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 5 December 2010.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Stafleu, F.A.; Cowan, R.S. (1976–1988). Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Second Edition. Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema and Holkema; Available online through Smithsonian Institution Libraries. pp. 34–36.
^ "Tropicos.org". Retrieved 5 March 2015.
^ International Plant Names Index. All.

External links

Mattirolo, Oreste (1904). Note bibliographiche Allioniane e Nomenclator Allionianus, pubblicati in Occasione Della Ricorrenza Centenaria Della Morte Di Carlo Allioni 1804 - 1904. Tipografia di A. Ciminago. p. 82 pages. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
Allioni, Carlo (1785). "Flora pedemontana". Digital old books. SICD Universities of Strasbourg. Archived from the original on 2008-04-03. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Author Details". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2008-06-19.

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