Michelangelo Console (

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

, 24 July 1812 –

, 13 May 1897) was an Italian botanist primarily known for his work on

cacti A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ...

Life and work

Michelangelo Console was professor of botany at the Palermo Botanical Garden, where he worked with French botanist

Charles Antoine Lemaire Charles Antoine Lemaire (1 November 1800, in Paris – 22 June 1871, in Paris), was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae. Education Born the son of Antoine Charles Lemaire and Marie Jeanne Davio, he ha ...

. Console described the cactus genus ''

Myrtillocactus ''Myrtillocactus'' (from Latin, "blueberry cactus") is a genus of cacti. The genus is found from Mexico to Guatemala. The genus is best known with ''Myrtillocactus geometrizans''. The genus ''Myrtillocereus'' Fric & Kreuz. (orth. var.) has bee ...

'' in 1897, shortly before his death.

named the cactus genus '' Consolea'' in honor of Console.

Selected works

* ''Su taluni casi morfologici nella famiglia delle Cactaceae''. In: ''Il Naturalista siciliano''. Palermo 1883, p. 78–79
Online
* ''Myrtillocactus, nuovo genere di Cactaceae''. In: ''Bollettino del Reale Orto Botanico di Palermo''. Vol. 1, No. 1, 1897, p. 8–10.

References

Italian botanists Scientists from Palermo 1812 births 1897 deaths {{Botanist-stub