Giuseppe De Notaris (18 April 1805,

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– 22 January 1877) was an Italian

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generally known for his work with

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s native to Italy. He studied medicine at the

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, obtaining his medical degree in 1830. Having developed an interest in botany, by 1832 he had abandoned the field of medicine. In 1836 he accepted an assignment at the botanical garden in

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, and a few years later, was named professor of botany and director of the botanical garden at the

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(1839). In 1872 he was appointed chair of botany at the University of Rome. In the field of

mycology Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans, including as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogens, as ...

, he proposed the fungi family

Hypocreaceae The Hypocreaceae are a family within the class Sordariomycetes. Species of Hypocreaceae are usually recognized by their brightly colored, perithecial ascomata, typically yellow, orange or red. The family was proposed by Giuseppe De Notaris in 184 ...

(1845). With Antonio Bey Figari (1804-1870), he described numerous species from the family

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

. With Figari, he was the binomial co-author of the grass genus ''Schistachne'' (synonym ''

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''). Organisms with the specific epithet of ''notarisiana'' commemorate his name.

Selected works

* Muscologiae italicae spicilegium, 1837. * Syllabus muscorum in Italia et in insulis circumstantibus hucusque cognitorum, 1838. * Florula Caprariae : sive, Enumeratio plantarum in insula Capraria : vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem latius excultarum, 1839 (with

Giuseppe Giacinto Moris Giuseppe Giacinto Moris (25 April 1796, Orbassano – 18 April 1869, Turin) was an Italian botanist known for investigations of flora native to Sardinia. He studied medicine in Turin, from where he graduated while still in his teens. From 1822 ...

). * Repertorium florae Ligusticae, 1844. * Agrostograhiae Aegyptiacae fragmenta, 1852 (with Antonio Bey Figari). * Musci italici, 1862. * Sferiacei italici, 1863. * Epilogo della Briologia Italiana, 1869.WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by Giuseppe De Notaris

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{{DEFAULTSORT:De Notaris, Giuseppe 1805 births 1877 deaths Scientists from Milan Sapienza University of Rome faculty University of Genoa faculty University of Pavia alumni 19th-century Italian botanists Italian mycologists Bryologists Pteridologists

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