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Carlo Allioni (23 September 1728 in
Turin
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– 30 July 1804 in Turin) was an Italian
physician
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and
professor of botany at the
University of Turin
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. His most important work was ''Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii'' 1755, a study of the plant world in
Piedmont
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, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown. In 1766, he published the ''Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium''.
Career
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In April, 1758 he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
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.
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.
[
First ]Pehr Löfling
Pehr Löfling (31 January 1729 – 22 February 1756) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Biography
Löfling was born in Tolvfors Bruk, Gävle, Sweden. He studied at the University of Uppsala where he attended courses taugh ...
and then Linnaeus
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named the New World herb genus '' Allionia'' (Nyctaginaceae) after Allioni. Per Axel Rydberg
Per Axel Rydberg (July 6, 1860 – July 25, 1931) was a Swedish-born, American botanist who was the first curator of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium.
Biography
Per Axel Rydberg was born in Odh, Västergötland, Sweden and emigrated t ...
named the genus ''Allioniella'' (now a taxonomic synonym
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for '' Mirabilis''), after him.
Also named after him are:
* '' Arabis allionii''
* '' Jovibarba allioni''
* ''Primula allioni
''Primula'' () is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. They include the primrose ('' P. vulgaris''), a familiar wildflower of banks and verges. Other common species are '' P. auricula'' (auricula), '' P. veris'' (co ...
''
* ''Veronica allionii Veronica, Veronika, etc., may refer to:
People
* Veronica (name)
* Saint Veronica
* Saint Veronica of Syria
Arts and media Comics and literature
* ''Veronica'', an 1870 novel by Frances Eleanor Trollope
* ''Veronica'', a 2005 novel by Mary Gait ...
''
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 Olschki
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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