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Sandro Pignatti

Italian botanist (1930–2025) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Alessandro "Sandro" Pignatti (28 September 1930 – 13 June 2025) was an Italian botanist specialising in pteridophytes and spermatophytes.[1] The Australian plant species Calectasia pignattiana was named after him. On 31 May 1991, Pignatti received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.[2] He was an Honorary Member of the International Association for Vegetation Science (1997).[3]

The specific epithet of the Western Australian plant species, Calectasia pignattiana honoured "Professors Erika and Alessandro Pignatti of Rome on the occasion of their seventieth birthdays".[4]

Pignatti died on 13 June 2025, at the age of 94.[5]

The standard author abbreviation Pignatti is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]
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