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Ritratto di Carlo Allioni, ante 1902 - Accademia delle Scienze di Torino - Ritratti 0101 B
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. 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.

Career

Allioni, Carlo – Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis enumeratio methodica, 1757 – BEIC 6931947
Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis enumeratio methodica, 1757

In April, 1758 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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.

First Pehr Löfling and then Linnaeus named the New World herb genus Allionia (Nyctaginaceae) after Allioni. 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.
  • Auctarium ad floram Pedemontanam cum notis et emendationibus (1789)
  • Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis Enumeratio methodica cum Elencho aliquot anirnalium ejusdem maris (1757)

See also

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