Luigi Aloysius Colla (30 April 1766 – 23 December 1848) was an

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of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. He was a member of the Provisional Government of

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from December 12, 1798, to April 2, 1799, taking his turn as chairman of the government in rotation for a ten-day term. In 1820 Colla described two species, ''

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'' and ''

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'', that are the basis for almost all cultivated

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s. Colla was a member of the

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Bibliography

* ''L'antolegista botanico'' - Turin - Volume 1, Volume 5, Volume 6 * ''Memoria sul genere Musa e monografia del medesimo'' - Turin * ''Observations sur le Limodorum purpureum de M. de Lamarck et création d'un nouveau genre dans la famille des Orchidées'' - Paris : Imprimerie Lebel * ''Hortus Ripulensis seu enumeratio plantarum quae Ripulis coluntur'' - Ed. Augustae Taurinorum * ''Mémoire sur le Melanopsidium Nigrum des jardiniers, et formation d'un genre nouveau dans la famille des rubiacées'' (1825) * ''Illustrationes et icones rariorum stirpium quae in ejus horto Ripulis florebant, anno 1826, addita ad hortum Ripulensem appendice III'' (1826) * avec Carlo Giuseppe Bertero - ''Plantae rariores in regionibus chilensibus'' - Deux tomes - Ex regia typographia (1832–1833) * ''Herbarium Pedemontanum juxta Methodum Naturalem Dispositum Additis'' - Ed. Augustae Taurinorum - Tome 1 (1833), Tome 2 (1834), Tome 3 (1834), Tome 4, Tome 6 (1836), Tome 7, Tome 8 * ''Osservazioni sovra una notizia pubblicata nel Messaggiere del 17 agosto 1842, num. 35 dal sig. Paolo Emilio Colombo circa l'Elephantusia macrocarpa del Willd'' (1842) * ''Observations sur la famille des rutacées : sur le genre Correa et formation du nouveau genre Antommarchia'' (1843) * ''Camelliografia ossia tentavio di una nuova disposizione naturale delle varietà della Camellia del Giappone'' - Turin

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References

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names
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