Oreste Mattirolo (7 December 1856, in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

– 3 December 1947, in Turin) was an Italian

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 ...

and

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

, who specialized in hypogeal fungi. He studied medicine and sciences at the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe and continues to play an impo ...

, and from 1879, continued his education at the

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as a pupil of Heinrich Anton de Bary. In 1894 he became an associate professor at the

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, where he attained a full professorship during the following year. Later on, he served as a professor of

botany 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 w ...

and director of the botanical gardens at the universities of

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(1898–1900) and Turin (1900–37).BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications The mycological genera ''Mattirolia'' ( Berl. & Bres., 1889) and ''

Mattirolomyces The Terfeziaceae, or desert truffles, is a family of truffles ( ber, script=latn, Tirfas, ar, كمأ, Kam', ckb, دنبلان, Domalan, he, כמהת הנגב, kmehat hanegev) endemic to arid and semi-arid areas of the Mediterranean Region, N ...

'' ( E.Fisch., 1938) commemorate his name.

Selected works

* ''Sul parassitismo dei Tartufi e sulla quistione delle mycorrhizae'', 1887 – On the parasitism of

truffles A truffle is the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus, predominantly one of the many species of the genus ''Tuber''. In addition to ''Tuber'', many other genera of fungi are classified as truffles including ''Geopora'', ''Peziza ...

and the question of mycorrhizae. * ''Reliquiæ Morisianæ; ossia, Elenco di piante e località nuove per la flora di Sardegna recentemente scoperte nell'erbario di G.G. Moris'', 1892 – Reliquiae Morisianae; List of plants and locations concerning the flora of

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

recently discovered in the

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

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 t ...

. * ''L'opera botanica di Ulisse Aldrovandi (1549-1605)'', 1897 – The botanical work of Ulisse Aldrovandi. * ''Cenni chronologici sugli Orti Botanici di Firenze'', 1899 – Chronological notes on the Botanical Gardens of Florence. * ''Giulio Camus e la sua opera botanica (1847-1917)'', 1917 – Giulio Camus and his botanical work.Google Search
(published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mattirolo, Oreste 1856 births 1947 deaths Scientists from Turin Academic staff of the University of Turin Academic staff of the University of Florence Academic staff of the University of Bologna Italian mycologists 19th-century Italian botanists 20th-century Italian botanists