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

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. He explored the West Indies between 1816 and 1821 coinciding with the Venezuelan scientist and later president,

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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

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. He is presumed lost in a shipwreck while sailing from Tahiti to Chile.

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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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'' berteroi (Colla) A.E. Hoffm.Cact. Fl. Silvestre Chile 244. 1989 (IK) *(Cactaceae) '' Opuntia berteri'' (C.F. Först.) E. F. Anderson

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. (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)

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.

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