Salvatore Brullo (born 23 February 1947,
Modica, Italy
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) is professor at
University of Catania
The University of Catania ( it, Università degli Studi di Catania) is a university located in Catania, Sicily. Founded in 1434, it is the oldest university in Sicily, the 13th oldest in Italy, and the 29th oldest university in the world. With a ...
since 1980 teaching
Systematic Botany
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, he obtained a degree in natural science on July 1970.
For six years he was Director of the Department of Botany, at the
University of Catania
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.
He has described numerous Sicilian
endemism
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s, including ''
Allium franciniae'', ''
Allium lopadusanum'', ''
Campanula marcenoi'', ''
Chiliadenus bocconei'', ''
Desmazeria pignattii
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Genista demarcoi'', ''
Helichrysum hyblaeum'', ''
Helichrysum melitense
''Helichrysum melitense'', the Maltese everlasting, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Malta, specifically on the island of Gozo. It can be found in Dwejra, and in cliffs in Gozo near Fungus Rock. Its natu ...
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Hyoseris frutescens
''Hyoseris frutescens'' is a species of flowering plant called ''Żigland t'Għawdex'' in Maltese language, Maltese and Maltese Hyoseris or Gozo Hyoseris in English. This species is Endemism, endemic to the Maltese islands,http://www.maltawildpl ...
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Limonium aegusae'', ''
Limonium lojaconoi'', ''
Limonium lopadusanum'', ''
Limonium lylibeum'', ''
Scilla dimartinoi'', ''
Silene hicesiae
''Silene hicesiae'' is a species of plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is endemic to Panarea and Alicudi, which form part of the Aeolian archipelago, a commune of Sicily, Italy. Its natural habitats are Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation ...
'', ''
Valantia calva''.
See also
*
:Taxa named by Salvatore Brullo
Books
* 1970. ''Vegetazione psammofila presso il Capo Isola delle Correnti, Sicilia sud-orientale''. Catania
* 1971. ''Vegetazione dei pantani litoranei della Sicilia sud-orientale e problema della conservazione dell'ambiente''. Catania
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salvatore Brullo, maria Grillo, maria carmen Terrasi. 1976. ''Ricerche fitosociologiche sui pascoli di Monte Lauro (Sicilia meridionale)''. Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di botanica dell'Università di Catania. Ed. Tip. Ospizio di Beneficenza. 104 pp.
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salvatore Brullo, andrea Di Martino, marceno Cosimo. 1977. "La vegetazione di Pantelleria : studio fitosociologico''. 110 pp. Catania
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salvatore Brullo, francesco Furnari. 1979. ''Researches on the genus Amaracus Gled. (Labiatae) in Cyrenaica''. Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di botanica dell'Università di Catania. 449 pp.
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salvatore Brullo, francesco Furnari. 1979. ''Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the flora of Cyrenaica (Libya)''. Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di botanica dell'Università di Catania. 174 pp.
* 1979. ''Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the genera Jasonia Cass. and Chiliadenus Cass. (Compositae)''. Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di botanica dell'Università di Catania. 308 pp.
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salvatore Brullo, pietro Pavone. 1981. ''Chromosome numbers in the Sicilian species of Limonium Miller (Plumbaginaceae)''. Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di botanica dell'Università di Catania. 555 pp.
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salvatore Brullo, francesco Furnari. 1981. ''Phytogeographical considerations on the coastal vegetation of Cyrenaica''. Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di botanica dell'Università di Catania. 772 pp.
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salvatore Brullo, w. De Leonardis, pietro Pavone. 1982. ''Chromosome numbers of some Sicilian ferns''. 281 pp. Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di botanica dell'Università di Catania
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salvatore Brullo, fabrizio Scelsi, giovanni Spampinato. 2001. ''La vegetazione dell'Aspromonte. Studio fitosociologico''. Ed. Laruffa. 368 pp.
References
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Academic staff of the University of Catania
20th-century Italian botanists
Botanists active in Europe
Living people
1947 births