Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon (5 June 1818, in Padua 8 April 1897, in Milan) was an Italian botanist who specialized in cryptogamic flora.

During his career, he was a professor of natural history in Padua. In 1882, he was named president of the Accademia fisio-medica-statistica in Milan.[1][2]

In 1848, he circumscribed the genus Romanoa (family Euphorbiaceae) [3] and in 1861, named the genus Speerschneidera (family Bacidiaceae).[4][5] In 1888, he circumscribed the (Algae) genus Nocardia (family Nocardiaceae) that is now classed as a bacteria.[6] Also, he is also the taxonomic authority of the fern genera Blechnopteris (synonym of Blechnum L.[7]), Neurosorus (synonym of Coniogramme Fée,[8])and Oligocampia (synonym of Athyrium Roth[9]).[10]

Selected works

  • Prospetto della flora euganea, 1842.
  • Le alghe del tenere udinese, 1844.
  • Nomenclator algarum, ou Collection des noms imposés aux plantes de la famille des algues, 1845.
  • Saggio di una monografia delle alghe coccotalle, 1848.
  • Caratteri di dodici nuovi generi di licheni, 1853.
  • Schema di una nuova classificazione delle epatiche, 1877.
  • L'opera lichenologica di Vittore Trevisan (1994).[11]

See also

  • Category:Taxa named by Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon

References

  1. Museo civico di storia naturale di Milano
  2. Google Books Atti della Reale Accademia delle scienze di Torino, Volume 18
  3. Tropicos Romanoa Trevis.
  4. Index Nominum Genericorum database Speerschneidera
  5. Mycobank Speerschneidera
  6. Lu SH, Qian ZW, Mou PP, Xie L (November 2020). "Clinical Nocardia species: Identification, clinical characteristics, and antimicrobial susceptibility in Shandong, China". Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences. 20 (4): 531–538. doi:10.17305/bjbms.2020.4764. PMC 7664795. PMID 32415818.
  7. "Blechnopteris Trevis". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  8. "Neurosorus Trevis". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  9. "Oligocampia Trevis". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  10. IPNI List of botanical names described by Trevisan
  11. OCLC Classify (published works)
  12. International Plant Names Index.  Trevis.
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