Gonçalo António da Silva Ferreira Sampaio (29 March 1865 in São Gens de Calvos – 28 July 1937 in

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) was a Portuguese

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. He studied mathematics at the

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and

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and botany at the Polytechnic Academy of Porto. From 1890 he served as an assistant naturalist at the Polytechnic Academy. From 1912 to 1935 he was a professor of botany at the faculty of sciences of the

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. In 1923 Sampaio issued the

exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...

''Lichenes de Portugal''. As a

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he described around 50 new species of

vascular plants Vascular plants (), also called tracheophytes (, ) or collectively tracheophyta (; ), are plants that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant. They also have a specialized non-lignified tissue ( ...

, five new species of

desmid Desmidiales, commonly called the desmids (''Gr.'' ''desmos'', bond or chain), are an Order (biology), order in the Charophyta, a division of green algae in which the land plants (Embryophyta) emerged. Desmids consist of single-celled (sometimes fi ...

s and about 70 new taxa of

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...

s that included the genus ''Carlosia'' (family

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). The

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genus ''Sampaioa'' (Gonz. Frag., 1923; syn. '' Mycoglaena'') commemorates his name.

Selected works

* ''Estudos sobre a flora dos arredores do Porto. Gen. Spergularia'', 1904 – Studies on the flora in the vicinity of Porto; genus ''

Spergularia ''Spergularia'' is a genus in the family Caryophyllaceae, containing salt-tolerant plants known as sandspurrys (or sandspurries) and sea-spurreys. There are about 60 species. Selected species * '' Spergularia azorica'' – endemic to the archipe ...

''. * ''"Rubus” portuguezes. Contribuções para o seu estudo'', 1904 – ''

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'' native to Portugal. * ''Contribuções para o estudo da flora portugueza; Epilobiaceae'', 1906 – Contributions for the study of the Portuguese flora; Epilobiaceae. * ''Notas criticas sobre a flora portugueza'', 1906 – Critical notes involving Portuguese flora. * ''Flora vascular de Odemira'', 1909 – Vascular plants of

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. * ''Manual da flora portugueza'', 1909–14 – Manual of Portuguese flora. * ''Estudos botanicos. Especies novas e nomes novos'', 1912 – Botanical studies, new species and new names. * ''Lista das espécies representadas no Herbário português'', 1913 – List of species represented in the Portuguese Herbarium. * Apêndice à lista das espécies representadas no Herbário português, 1914 – Appendix to the list of species represented in the Portuguese Herbarium.

References

1865 births 1937 deaths People from Póvoa de Lanhoso University of Coimbra alumni Academic staff of the University of Porto 19th-century Portuguese botanists Lichenologists Phycologists University of Porto alumni Portuguese taxonomists 20th-century Portuguese botanists {{Portugal-botanist-stub