Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon

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.

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.[1][2] In 1848 he circumscribed the genus Romanoa (family Euphorbiaceae) [3] and in 1861 named the genus Speerschneidera (family Bacidiaceae).[4][5] Also, he is the taxonomic authority of the fern genera Blechnopteris, Neurosorus and Oligocampia.[6]

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).[7]

References
  1. Museo civico di storia naturale di Milano
  2. Google Books Atti della Reale Accademia delle scienze di Torino, Volume 18
  3. Tropicos Romanoa Trevis.
  4. Index Nominum Genericorum database Speerschneidera
  5. Mycobank Speerschneidera
  6. IPNI List of botanical names described by Trevisan
  7. OCLC Classify (published works)
  8. IPNI.  Trevis.
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