Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon

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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. He edited the exsiccata Lichenotheca Veneta.^[1]

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.^[2][3]

In 1848, he circumscribed the genus Romanoa (family Euphorbiaceae) ^[4] and in 1861, named the genus Speerschneidera (family Bacidiaceae).^[5][6] In 1888, he circumscribed the (Algae) genus Nocardia (family Nocardiaceae) that is now classed as bacteria.^[7] Also, he is also the taxonomic authority of the fern genera Blechnopteris (synonym of Blechnum L.^[8]), Neurosorus (synonym of Coniogramme Fée,^[9])and Oligocampia (synonym of Athyrium Roth^[10]).^[11]

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).^[12]

See also

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