Luigi Aloysius Colla

Luigi Aloysius Colla (30 April 1766 – 23 December 1848) was an Italian botanist of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. He was a member of the Provisional Government of Savoy from December 12, 1798 to April 2, 1799, taking his turn as chairman of the government in rotation for a ten-day term.[1] In 1820 Colla described two species, Musa balbisiana and Musa acuminata, that are the basis for almost all cultivated bananas.[2] Colla was a member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.[3]

Luigi Aloysius Colla
Luigi Aloysius Colla
Born
Luigi Aloysius Colla

30 April 1766
Turin, Duchy of Savoy
Died23 December 1848
Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia
NationalitySavoyard, Piedmontese
Occupationbotanist, lawyer, politician
Known fordescription of species on which most cultivars of bananas are based

Bibliography
  • L'antolegista botanico - Turin - Volume 1,[4] Volume 5,[5] Volume 6[6]
  • Memoria sul genere Musa e monografia del medesimo - Turin[7]
  • Observations sur le Limodorum purpureum de M. de Lamarck et création d'un nouveau genre dans la famille des Orchidées - Paris : Imprimerie Lebel[8]
  • Hortus Ripulensis seu enumeratio plantarum quae Ripulis coluntur - Ed. Augustae Taurinorum[9]
  • Mémoire sur le Melanopsidium Nigrum des jardiniers, et formation d'un genre nouveau dans la famille des rubiacées (1825)
  • Illustrationes et icones rariorum stirpium quae in ejus horto Ripulis florebant, anno 1826, addita ad hortum Ripulensem appendice III (1826)
  • avec Carlo Giuseppe Bertero - Plantae rariores in regionibus chilensibus - Deux tomes - Ex regia typographia (1832–1833)
  • Herbarium Pedemontanum juxta Methodum Naturalem Dispositum Additis - Ed. Augustae Taurinorum - Tome 1 (1833), Tome 2 (1834), Tome 3 (1834), Tome 4,[10] Tome 6 (1836), Tome 7,[11] Tome 8[12]
  • Osservazioni sovra una notizia pubblicata nel Messaggiere del 17 agosto 1842, num. 35 dal sig. Paolo Emilio Colombo circa l'Elephantusia macrocarpa del Willd (1842)
  • Observations sur la famille des rutacées : sur le genre Correa et formation du nouveau genre Antommarchia (1843)
  • Camelliografia ossia tentavio di una nuova disposizione naturale delle varietà della Camellia del Giappone - Turin[13]

Notes
  1. "Italian states before 1861". rulers.org. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  2. "Musa paradisiaca". www.users.globalnet.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  3. "Haverford College Libraries - Special Collections - Robert B. Haines, III Collection". 2006-07-23. Archived from the original on 2006-07-23. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  4. Colla, Luigi (1813). L'antolegista botanico (in Italian). Coi tipi di D. Pane.
  5. Colla, Luigi (1814). L'antolegista botanico (in Italian). Coi tipi di D. Pane.
  6. Colla, Luigi (1814). L'antolegista botanico (in Italian). Coi tipi di D. Pane.
  7. Colla, Luigi; Bonafous (1820). Memoria sul genere Musa e monografia del medesimo/dell' avvocato collegiato Luigi Colla... stampata nel tomo XXV delle Memorie dell' Accademia reale delle scienze di Torino a pagina 333 (in Italian).
  8. Colla, Luigi (1824). Observations sur le Limodorum purpureum de Mr. de Lamarck (in French).
  9. Colla, Luigi (1824). Hortus Ripulensis seu enumeratio plantarum quae ripulis coluntur: additis stirpium rariorum, vel nondum satis cognitarum, aut forte novarum notis, descriptionibus, et iconibus (in Latin). Regio Typographaeo.
  10. Colla, Luigi (1835). Herbarium Pedemontanum juxta methodum naturalem dispositum: additis nonnullis stirpibus exoticis ad universos ejusdem methodi ordines exhibendos (in Latin). ex typis regiis.
  11. Colla, Luigi (1837). Herbarium Pedemontanum (in Latin). Typ. regii.
  12. Colla, Luigi (1824). Observations sur le Limodorum purpureum de Mr. de Lamarck (in French).
  13. Camelliografia ossia tentavio di una nuova disposizione naturale delle varietà della camellia del Giappone e loro descrizione (in Italian). Giuseppe Pomba. 1843.
  14. IPNI.  Colla.

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