Lionardo Sesler

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Lionardo Sesler , also Leonardo Sesler , († 1785 ) was an Italian doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Sesl. "

Live and act

Lionardo Sesler practiced as a doctor in Venice and owned his own plant garden in Padua . In the lettera intorno ad un nuovo genere di Piante terrestri , he was the first to describe and draw a specimen of the genus Vitaliana ( gold primrose , now part of the genus Mannsschild [ Androsace ]) from the primrose family (Primulaceae).

Honor taxon

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli named the genus Sesleria of the plant family of sweet grasses (Poaceae) in his honor .

Works

  • Lettera intorno ad un nuovo genere di Piante terrestri . In: Vitaliano Donati : Della storia naturale marina dell 'Adriatico saggio giuntavi una lettera del Signor L. Sesler intorno ad un nuovo genere di piante terrestri . (Venice, 1750)

swell

  • Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton Fla. et al. 2000, ISBN 0-8493-2673-7 , p. 2469.
  • IK Ferguson: Notes on the Typification of the Name Vitaliana primuliflora (Primulaceae) . In: Taxon . Vol. 18, No. 3, June 1969, ISSN  0040-0262 , pp. 300-303.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giovanni Antonio Scopoli: Flora Carniolica . 1760, Volume I, p. 63

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personal data
SURNAME Sesler, Lionardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sesler, Leonardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century or 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 1785