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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. His most important work was ''Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii'' 1755, a study of the plant world in Piedmont, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown. In 1766, he published the ''Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium''.
In April, 1758 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was appointed extraordinary professor of botany at the University of Turin in 1760 and was also the director of the
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. His most important work was ''Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii'' 1755, a study of the plant world in Piedmont, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown. In 1766, he published the ''Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium''.
Career
In April, 1758 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was appointed extraordinary professor of botany at the University of Turin in 1760 and was also the director of the Turin Botanical Garden
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
. The journal ''Allionia: bollettino dell' istituto ed orto botanico dell' università di Torino'' is named after him.
First Pehr Löfling and then Linnaeus named the New World herb genus ''Allionia
''Allionia'', commonly known as windmills or trailing four o'clock, is a genus of two plant species widespread in the Western Hemisphere. Both species are unusual in their blooms, which consist of three separate flowers appearing to be a single f ...
'' (Nyctaginaceae) after Allioni. Per Axel Rydberg named the genus ''Allioniella'' (now a taxonomic synonym for '' Mirabilis''), after him.
Also named after him are:
* ''Arabis allionii
''Arabis'' ,''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607 or rockcress, is a genus of flowering plants, within the family Brassicaceae.
Description
The species are herbaceous, annual or perennial plants, growing to 10–80 cm tall, ...
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* ''Jovibarba allioni
''Jovibarba'' ("beard of Jupiter") is a small genus of three species of succulent flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, endemic to mountainous regions in the southeastern quadrant of Europe. The genus is sometimes classified as a su ...
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* '' Primula allioni''
* '' Veronica allionii''
Selected works
*''Flora Pedemontana, sive, Enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii'', Turin, 1755. * Stirpium praecipuarum litoris et agri Nicaensis, Turin, 1755. ** *''Auctarium ad floram Pedemontanam cum notis et emendationibus'' (1789) *''Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis Enumeratio methodica cum Elencho aliquot anirnalium ejusdem maris'' (1757)References
Further reading
*Caramiello, R. & Forneris, G. (2004) ''Le opere minori di Carlo Allioni: dal «Rariorum Pedemontii stirpium» all'«Auctarium ad Floram Pedemontanam»''. Firenze: Edizioni OlschkiExternal links
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Allioni 1728 births 1804 deaths Physicians from Turin 18th-century Italian botanists Italian entomologists Fellows of the Royal Society University of Turin faculty Scientists from Turin Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities