Benedetto Scortechini (1845–1886) was an Italian botanist, explorer, and Roman Catholic priest.
Biography
He graduated from the
Sapienza University of Rome
The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a Public university, public research university l ...
as a priest and a lawyer. Accompanied by the priest Jerome Davadi (1846–1900) and one other Italian priest, Scortechini arrived in
Brisbane
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on 28 February 1871. The three Italian priests were brought, shortly after the end of the
First Vatican Council
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, to the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Australia located in Brisbane and covering the South East region of Queensland, Australia.
Part of the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical ...
Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Australia located in Brisbane and covering the South East region of Queensland, Australia.
Part of the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical ...
. After briefly working in
Stanhope, Victoria
Stanhope is a town in north central Victoria, Australia. Stanhope is from Shepparton. It lies north of the state capital Melbourne and south west of Canberra the capital city of Australia. At the , Stanhope had a population of 828.
History
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and in
Roma, Queensland
Roma is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre of the Maranoa Region. The town was incorporated in 1867 and is named after Lady Diamantina Bowen (née di Roma), the wife of Sir Geo ...
, Scortechini was stationed in
Gympie
Gympie ( ) is a city and a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Wide Bay-Burnett District, Gympie is about north of the state capital, Brisbane. The city lies on the Mary River (Queen ...
,
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
from 1873 to 1875. In 1875 he was appointed the pastor of Logan Parish within the
County of Ward, Queensland
The County of Ward is a county (a cadastral division) in the south-eastern corner of Queensland, Australia. The main urban area within the county is the city of the Gold Coast, and it also extends to include the southern parts of the West Moret ...
, where he remained the pastor for nine years until he left Australia in 1884.
George King George King may refer to:
Politics
* George King (Australian politician) (1814–1894), New South Wales and Queensland politician
* George King, 3rd Earl of Kingston (1771–1839), Irish nobleman and MP for County Roscommon
* George Clift King (184 ...
Hugh Low
Sir Hugh Low, (10 May 182418 April 1905) was a British colonial administrator and naturalist. After a long residence in various colonial roles in Labuan, he was appointed as British administrator in the Malay Peninsula where he made the first ...
Perak
Perak () is a state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, and Selangor to the south. Thailand's ...
, to employ plant collectors to work in Peninsular Malaysia. As part of this programme, King and Low recruited Hermann H. Kunstler (1837–1887) and Scortechini. Botanical specimens were sent to George King in Calcutta with duplicates sent to Kew Gardens.
Upon his death, Scortechini's collections were given to the Calcutta herbarium.
Eponyms
Genus
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Nitschkiaceae
The Nitschkiaceae are a family of fungi in the Ascomycota, order Coronophorales. Species in the family are mostly saprobic on wood, although some grow on lichens.
Genera
This is a list of the genera in the Nitschkiaceae, based on a 2021 review a ...
Scortechinia
''Scortechinia'' is a genus of fungi in the Ascomycota, of the family Nitschkiaceae.
The genus was circumscribed by Pier Andrea Saccardo in Atti Reale Ist. Veneto Sci. Lett. Arti ser.6, vol.3 on page 713 in 1885.
The genus name of ''Scortechini ...
Neoscortechinia
''Neoscortechinia'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1897. It is native to Southeast Asia and Papuasia
Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording ...
Goniothalamus scortechinii
''Goniothalamus scortechinii'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Peninsular Malaysia and Thailand. George King, the British botanist who first formally described the species, named it in honor of Benedetto Scort ...
Hoya Hoya may refer to:
Places
*Hoya, Germany, a city in Lower Saxony, Germany
*County of Hoya, a former state in present Germany
* Hoya, Tokyo, now incorporated within Nishi-tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
* Hoya, Hpruso, a place in Hpruso Township, Kayah, Myanma ...
Arecaceae
The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm trees ...
) ''Eleiodoxa scortechinii'' (
Becc.
Odoardo Beccari (16 November 1843 – 25 October 1920) was an Italian botanist famous for his discoveries in Indonesia, particularly New Guinea, and Australia. He has been called the greatest botanist to ever study Malesia. His author abbrevi ...
)
Burret
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synonym for ''
Eleiodoxa conferta
''Eleiodoxa'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family found in Southeast Asia. The only species, ''Eleiodoxa conferta'', is a dioecious, swamp-dwelling plant, commonly called by Malay as ''asam kelubi'' or ''asam paya''. Whi ...
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Asclepiadaceae
The Asclepiadoideae are a subfamily of plants in the family Apocynaceae. Formerly, they were treated as a separate family under the name Asclepiadaceae, e.g. by APG II, and known as the milkweed family.
They form a group of perennial herbs, twin ...
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Secamone
''Secamone'' is a genus of plant in family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810. It is widespread across much of Africa, northern Australia, southern Asia, with numerous species endemic to Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagas ...
Caesalpiniaceae
Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. Its name is formed from the generic name ''Caesalpinia''. It is known also as the peacock flower subfamily. The Caesalpinioideae ar ...
F.Muell.
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victo ...
Argyreia
''Argyreia'' is a genus of plants in the family Convolvulaceae.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Argyreia'':
* '' Argyreia adpressa'' (Choisy) Boerl.
* '' Argyreia akoensis '' S.Z.Yang, P.H.Chen & Staples
* '' Argyr ...
scortechinii'' (
Prain
Sir David Prain (11 July 1857 – 16 March 1944) was a Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden and went on to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Life
Born to David Prain, a saddler, and his wife ...
) Prain ex
Hoogland
Hoogland () is a village and former free-standing municipality in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The village population is 10,587 people (2006).
Since 1974, Hoogland has been a part of the municipality of Amersfoort. Until that ti ...
Ridl.
Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. (10 December 1855 – 24 October 1956) was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore. He was instrumental in promoting rubber trees ...
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B.L.Burtt
Brian Laurence "Bill" Burtt FRSE Linnean Society, FLS (27 August 1913 – 30 May 2008), was an English botanist and taxonomist who is noted for his contributions to the family Gesneriaceae. In a career that spanned 74 years, he worked first at t ...
Loranthaceae
Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites. The three terrestrial species are ''Nuytsia floribunda'' (the W ...
Rhamnaceae
The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales.
The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae h ...
) ''Stenanthemum scortechinii'' (F.Muell.) Maiden &
Betche
Daniel Ludwig Ernst Betche (31 December 1851, in Potsdam – 28 June 1913, in Sydney) was a German-Australian horticulturist and botanist.
His mother died at his birth and he was of delicate constitution all his life. His father was sufficient ...
Geophila scortechinii
''Geophila'' is a genus of herbs in the family Rubiaceae. This genus is pantropical, as it is found in most tropical regions.
The name ''Geophila'' was once applied to a genus of mushrooms (defined by Lucien Quélet in 1886 with the moder ...
Ternstroemia
''Ternstroemia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Pentaphylacaceae. It is distributed in tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.Szyszył.
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Vitaceae
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) ''
Tetrastigma
''Tetrastigma'' is a genus of plants in the grape family, Vitaceae. The plants are lianas that climb with tendrils and have palmately compound leaves. Plants are dioecious, with separate male and female plants; female flowers are characterized ...