José da Costa Sacco (1930 – 11 February 2023) was a Brazilian botanist. Sacco was a professor at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas and is still living in

Pelotas Pelotas () is a Brazilian city and Municipalities of Brazil, municipality (''município''), the fourth Largest cities in Rio Grande do Sul by population, most populous in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, after Porto Alegre, Caxias do Su ...

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

. He specialised in the genus ''

Passiflora ''Passiflora'', known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 550 species of flowering plants, the type genus of the family Passifloraceae. ''Passiflora'' species are widely cultivated for their striking flowers, fla ...

'' and has named and published many species including '' Passiflora edmundoi''. The Brazilian botanist Armando Carlos Cervi has named '' Passiflora saccoi'' after him. Sacco died on 11 February 2023, at the age of 93.

Selected publications

*'Identificação das principais variedades de trigo do sul do Brasil'; in: ''Boletim técnico do Instituto Agronómico do Sul'' deel 26, 1960, Instituto Agronómico do Sul, Pelotas *'Passifloraceae', in: A.R. Schultz (ed), ''Flora ilustrada do Rio Grande do Sul'', pp 7–29, 1962, Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre *'Contribuição ao estudo das Passifloraceae do Brasil: Duas novas espécies de Passiflora'; In: ''Sellowia'' No. 18, 41–46, 1966 *'Contribuição ao estudo das Passifloraceae do Brasil: Passiflora margaritae'; in: ''Sellowia'', 19: 59–61, 1967 *'Passifloráceas'; in: R. Reitz (ed), ''Flora ilustrada catarinense'', pp 1–130, 1980, Herbário Barbosa Rodrigues, Itajaí, SC *'Passiflora castellanosii'; in: ''Bradea'' 1 (33): 346–348, 1973 *'Una nova especie de Passiflora da Bolívia: Passiflora pilosicorona'; in: ''Bradea'' 1 (33): 349–352, 1973

References

External links

José da Costa Sacco on the website of Harvard University Herbarium
1930 births 2023 deaths 20th-century Brazilian botanists Academic staff of the Federal University of Pelotas {{Brazil-botanist-stub