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Carlo Allioni (23 September 1728 in
In April, 1758 he was elected a
Carlo Allioni (23 September 1728 in Turin
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– 30 July 1804 in Turin) was an Italian physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
and professor of botany at the University of Turin
The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...
. His most important work was ''Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii'' 1755, a study of the plant world in Piedmont
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, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown. In 1766, he published the ''Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium''.
Career
In April, 1758 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemati ...
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He was appointed extraordinary professor of botany at the University of Turin in 1760 and was also the director of the Turin Botanical Garden. The journal ''Allionia: bollettino dell' istituto ed orto botanico dell' università di Torino'' is named after him.
First Pehr Löfling
Pehr Löfling (31 January 1729 – 22 February 1756) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Biography
Löfling was born in Tolvfors Bruk, Gävle, Sweden. He studied at the University of Uppsala where he attended courses taug ...
and then Linnaeus named the New World herb genus ''Allionia
''Allionia'', commonly known as windmills or trailing four o'clock, is a genus of two plant species widespread in the Western Hemisphere. Both species are unusual in their blooms, which consist of three separate flowers appearing to be a single f ...
'' (Nyctaginaceae) after Allioni. Per Axel Rydberg
Per Axel Rydberg (July 6, 1860 – July 25, 1931) was a Swedish-born, American botanist who was the first curator of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium.
Biography
Per Axel Rydberg was born in Odh, Västergötland, Sweden and emigrated t ...
named the genus ''Allioniella'' (now a taxonomic synonym for '' Mirabilis''), after him.
Also named after him are:
* '' Arabis allionii''
* '' Jovibarba allioni''
* ''Primula allioni
''Primula'' () is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. They include the primrose ('' P. vulgaris''), a familiar wildflower of banks and verges. Other common species are '' P. auricula'' (auricula), '' P. veris'' (cow ...
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* ''Veronica allionii Veronica, Veronika, etc., may refer to:
People
* Veronica (name)
* Saint Veronica
* Saint Veronica of Syria
Arts and media Comics and literature
* ''Veronica'', an 1870 novel by Frances Eleanor Trollope
* ''Veronica'', a 2005 novel by Mary Gaits ...
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Selected works
*''Flora Pedemontana, sive, Enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii'', Turin, 1755. * Stirpium praecipuarum litoris et agri Nicaensis, Turin, 1755. ** *''Auctarium ad floram Pedemontanam cum notis et emendationibus'' (1789) *''Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis Enumeratio methodica cum Elencho aliquot anirnalium ejusdem maris'' (1757)References
Further reading
*Caramiello, R. & Forneris, G. (2004) ''Le opere minori di Carlo Allioni: dal «Rariorum Pedemontii stirpium» all'«Auctarium ad Floram Pedemontanam»''. Firenze: Edizioni OlschkiExternal links
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Allioni 1728 births 1804 deaths Physicians from Turin 18th-century Italian botanists Italian entomologists Fellows of the Royal Society University of Turin faculty Scientists from Turin Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities