Carlo Allioni

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 Pedemontii 1755, a study of the plant world in Piedmont, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown. In 1766, he published the Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium.

Carlo Allioni

Career
Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis enumeratio methodica, 1757

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.

Also named after him are:

  • Arabis allionii
  • Jovibarba allioni
  • Primula allioni
  • Veronica allionii

Selected works
  • Flora Pedemontana, sive, Enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii, Turin, 1755.
  • Stirpium praecipuarum litoris et agri Nicaensis, Turin, 1755.
    • Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis enumeratio methodica (in Latin). Paris: Jean Baptiste Claude Bauche (2.). 1757.
  • Auctarium ad floram Pedemontanam cum notis et emendationibus (1789)
  • Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis Enumeratio methodica cum Elencho aliquot anirnalium ejusdem maris (1757)

References
  1. Bailey, L. H.; Miller, Wilhelm; et al. (1900). "Abbreviations". Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation of Horticultural Plants, Descriptions of the Species of Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers and Ornamental Plants Sold in the United States and Canada, Together with Geographical and Biographical Sketches In Four Volumes. v.1 A-D. The Macmillan Company. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  2. "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  3. Stafleu, F.A.; Cowan, R.S. (1976–1988). Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Second Edition. Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema and Holkema; Available online through Smithsonian Institution Libraries. pp. 34–36.
  4. "Tropicos.org". Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  5. IPNI.  All.

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 ISBN 88-222-5378-7


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