Prof. Nicolás Rojas Acosta (1873–1946) was an Argentine academic and botanist. He explored the

Gran Chaco The Gran Chaco or simply Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland tropical dry broadleaf forest natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion o ...

in depth and was an expert in

Bambusoideae Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family, in the case of '' Dendrocalamus sinicus'' ...

and

Cactaceae A cactus (: cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae (), a family of the order Caryophyllales comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, ...

Works

* Rojas Acosta, N. 1918. ''Addenda ad floram regionis Chaco Australis (pars secunda)''. Bull. Acad. Int. Géogr. Bot. 26: 157–158 * Rojas Acosta, N. 1897. ''Historia natural de Corrientes : catálogo. Mineralogía, Gea Paleontología, Flora i Fauna que comprende principalmente los vejetales i animales de las provincias i territorios limítrofes. Publicación Buenos Aires : Imprenta El Hogar y la Escuela'', 1897, 214 p. * Rojas Acosta, N. 1915. ''Nociones sobre paleontología de Corrientes. Publicación .l.: E. Dupuis'', 1915

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1873 births 1946 deaths 20th-century Argentine botanists Pteridologists {{argentina-botanist-stub