Carlo Allioni
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Carlo Allioni (23 September 1728 in Turin – 30 July 1804 in Turin) was an Italian physician and professor of botany at the University of Turin.[1] His most important work was Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum PedemontiiScript error: No such module "Unsubst". 1755, a study of the plant world in Piedmont, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 1766, he published the Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium.
Career
In April, 1758 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]
He was appointed extraordinary professor of botany at the University of Turin in 1760 and was also the director of the Turin Botanical Garden. The journal Allionia: bollettino dell' istituto ed orto botanico dell' università di Torino is named after him.[3]
First Pehr Löfling and then Linnaeus named the New World herb genus Allionia (Nyctaginaceae) after Allioni.[3][4] Per Axel Rydberg named the genus Allioniella (now a taxonomic synonym for Mirabilis), after him.
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Selected works
- Flora Pedemontana, sive, Enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii, Turin, 1755.
- Stirpium praecipuarum litoris et agri Nicaensis, Turin, 1755.
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- Auctarium ad floram Pedemontanam cum notis et emendationibus (1789)
- Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis Enumeratio methodica cum Elencho aliquot anirnalium ejusdem maris (1757)
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Further reading
- Caramiello, R. & Forneris, G. (2004) Le opere minori di Carlo Allioni: dal «Rariorum Pedemontii stirpium» all'«Auctarium ad Floram Pedemontanam». Firenze: Edizioni Olschki Template:ISBN
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- 1728 births
- 1804 deaths
- People from the Kingdom of Sardinia
- Physicians from Turin
- 18th-century Italian botanists
- Italian entomologists
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Academic staff of the University of Turin
- Scientists from Turin
- Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities