Giuseppe Giacinto Moris (25 April 1796,

Orbassano Orbassano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin. Orbassano borders the following municipalities: Turin, Rivoli, Rivalta di Torino, Beinasco, Nichelin ...

– 18 April 1869,

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) was an Italian

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known for investigations of flora native to

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. He studied medicine in Turin, from where he graduated while still in his teens. From 1822 to 1829, he worked as a professor at the

University of Cagliari The University of Cagliari ( it, Università degli Studi di Cagliari) is a university in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. It was founded in 1606 and is organized in 11 faculties. History The ''Studium Generalis Kalaritanum'' was founded in 1606 alon ...

, afterwards returning to Turin as a professor at the

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. Here, he was director of its botanical garden from 1831 until 1869. He was the binomial authority of the genus '' Ridolfia'' (family

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) as well as of numerous plant species. In 1832,

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named the genus ''

Morisia ''Morisia'' is a monotypic genus of ornamental plant in the family Brassicaceae. Its only species is ''Morisia monanthos'', also called ''M. hypogaea''. It is native to the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, S ...

'' (family

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) in his honor.

Principal works

* Stirpium Sardoarum elenchus; 1827, 1829. * Plantae Chilenses novae minusve cognitae, 1833. * Flora Sardoa : seu historia plantarum in Sardinia et adjacentibus insulis vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem latius excultarum, 1837. * * * * Florula Caprariae : sive, Enumeratio plantarum in insula Capraria : vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem latius excultarum, 1839 (with

Giuseppe De Notaris Giuseppe De Notaris (18 April 1805, Milan – 22 January 1877) was an Italian botanist generally known for his work with cryptogams native to Italy. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia, obtaining his medical degree in 1830. Having deve ...

). * Enumeratio seminum Regni Horti Botanici Taurinensis, 1860.World Cat Identities
Most widely held works by Giuseppe Giacinto Moris

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moris, Giuseppe Giacinto 1796 births 1869 deaths People from Orbassano Academic staff of the University of Turin 19th-century Italian botanists Academic staff of the University of Cagliari Taxon authorities of Hypericum species