Gonçalo António da Silva Ferreira Sampaio (29 March 1865 in São Gens de Calvos – 28 July 1937 in

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

) was a Portuguese

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. He studied mathematics at the

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and

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

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and botany at the Polytechnic Academy of Porto. From 1890 he served as an assistant naturalist at the Polytechnic Academy. From 1912 to 1935 he was a professor of botany at the faculty of sciences of the University of Porto.Gonçalo Sampaio
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Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications Goncalo Sampaio

As a

taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...

he described around 50 new species of

vascular plants Vascular plants (), also called tracheophytes () or collectively Tracheophyta (), form a large group of land plants ( accepted known species) that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant. They al ...

, five new species of

desmid Desmidiales, commonly called desmids (''Gr.'' ''desmos'', bond or chain), are an order in the Charophyta, a division of green algae in which the land plants (Embryophyta) emerged. Or in other words, Desmid, (order Desmidiales), order of single- ...

s and about 70 new taxa of

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.Caliciaceae The Caliciaceae are a family of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota. Although the family has had its classification changed several times throughout its taxonomic history, the use of mode ...

). The

mycological 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 w ...

genus ''Sampaioa'' (Gonz. Frag., 1923; syn. '' Mycoglaena'') commemorates his name.

Selected works

* ''Estudos sobre a flora dos arredores do Porto. Gen. Spergularia'', 1904 – Studies on the flora in the vicinity of Porto; genus ''

Spergularia Spergularia is a genus in the family Caryophyllaceae, containing salt-tolerant plants known as sandspurrys and sea-spurreys. There are about 60 species. Selected species * '' Spergularia azorica'' – endemic to the archipelago of the AzoresSecr ...

''. * ''"Rubus” portuguezes. Contribuções para o seu estudo'', 1904 – ''

Rubus ''Rubus'' is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, with over 1,350 species. Raspberries, blackberries, and dewberries are common, widely distributed members of the genus. Most of these ...

'' native to Portugal. * ''Contribuções para o estudo da flora portugueza; Epilobiaceae'', 1906 – Contributions for the study of the Portuguese flora; Epilobiaceae. * ''Notas criticas sobre a flora portugueza'', 1906 – Critical notes involving Portuguese flora. * ''Flora vascular de Odemira'', 1909 – Vascular plants of

Odemira Odemira ( or ) is a town and a municipality in Beja District in the Portuguese region of Alentejo. The population in 2011 was 26,066, in an area of 1720.60 km2, making it the largest municipality of Portugal by area. It is famous for its wi ...

. * ''Manual da flora portugueza'', 1909–14 – Manual of Portuguese flora. * ''Estudos botanicos. Especies novas e nomes novos'', 1912 – Botanical studies, new species and new names. * ''Lista das espécies representadas no Herbário português'', 1913 – List of species represented in the Portuguese Herbarium. * Apêndice à lista das espécies representadas no Herbário português, 1914 – Appendix to the list of species represented in the Portuguese Herbarium.Works by Sampaio, Gonçalo António da Silva Ferreira
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References

1865 births 1937 deaths People from Póvoa de Lanhoso University of Coimbra alumni University of Porto faculty 19th-century Portuguese botanists Lichenologists Phycologists University of Porto alumni Portuguese taxonomists 20th-century Portuguese botanists {{Portugal-botanist-stub