Luigi Carlo Giuseppe Bertero (b. Santa Vittoria d'Alba, October 14, 1789 d. April 1831, –
South Pacific Ocean) was an Italian physicist, physician, naturalist, botanist,
bryologist and
pteridologist #REDIRECTFern
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Pteridologist #REDIRECTFern
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. He explored the
West Indies
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between 1816 and 1821 coinciding with the Venezuelan scientist and later president,
José María Vargas
José María Vargas Ponce (10 March 1786, in La Guaira – 13 April 1854, in New York City) was the president of Venezuela from 1835 to 1836. Vargas was Venezuela's first civilian president.
He graduated with a degree in philosophy from the S ...
in Puerto Rico although there is no evidence of any exchange between them. During his two voyages, February 1828 to September 1830 and between March and May 1830, he collected and described the flora of Chile. He also examined plants native to the Pacific island of
Juan Fernandez, as well as
Guadeloupe
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,
Haiti
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,
Puerto Rico
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, and
Colombia
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.
He is presumed lost in a shipwreck while sailing from Tahiti to Chile.
Eponyms
The American teacher, ornithologist and botanist
Ralph Hoffman (1870–1932) named a cactus, Opuntia berteri, after Bertero.
The genus Berteroa is named after Carlo Berteroa Bertero.
Genera:
*(
Brassicaceae) Berteroa DC.
*(
Cactaceae
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) ''
Opuntia
''Opuntia'', commonly called prickly pear or pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae. Prickly pears are also known as ''tuna'' (fruit), ''sabra'', ''nopal'' (paddle, plural ''nopales'') from the Nahuatl word f ...
'' berteroi (Colla) A.E. Hoffm.
[Cact. Fl. Silvestre Chile 244. 1989 (IK)]
*(Cactaceae) ''
Opuntia berteri'' (C.F. Först.) E. F. Anderson
Abbreviation (botany)
. (see the list of all the genera and species described by this author in IPNI). The following lichens are named in honor of Bertero:
''Biatora berteroana'' Mont. (1852)
''Brigantiaea berteroana'' (Mont.) Trevis. (1853)
''Pseudocyphellaria berteroana'' (Mont.) Redon (1977)
''Sticta berteroana'' Mont. (1835)
''Lecidea berteroana'' (Mont.) Nyl. (1855)
See also
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List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea
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Bibliography
:VIGNOLO-LUTATI, F.: L'opera botanica del dott. Carlo Bertero di S. Vittoria d'Alba (1789–1831) nelle antille e Sud-America (1816–21 e 1827–31) quale risulta dalle collezioni dell'ist. ed orto botanico d. Univ. di Torino.. Turín: Librería Le Colonne, 1955.
:MATTIROLO, O.: Nel I centenario della trágica scomparsa del celebre botanico esploratore medico carlo bertero di santa vittoria d'alba. Estudio Bibliográfico: Bosio Giovanni - Magliano Alpi, 1932.
References
Further reading
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1789 births
1830s missing person cases
1831 deaths
19th-century explorers
19th-century Italian botanists
People lost at sea