Orfeo Crosa
Orfeo Crosa Nogara (* in the 20th century) is a Uruguayan botanist . Its botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is " Crosa ".
Crosa researches and teaches as a professor in the Departamento de Biología Vegetal at the Agricultural Faculty of the Universidad de la República . The species Herbertia crosae from the iris family, discovered in northwest Uruguay, bears his name.
Taxonomically he has dealt with the leek family (Allioideae), a subfamily of the Amaryllidaceae : in 1975 he described the new genus Zoellnerallium (at that time only with one species , Zoellnerallium andinum ), and in 2004 he described two new species of the genus Nothoscordum , Nothoscordum izaguirreae and Nothoscordum marchesii .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Orfeo Crosa at the IPNI
- Orfeo Crosa: Segunda especie y justificación del género Zoellnerallium. (pdf; 28 kB) In: Darwiniana 42 (1–4). 2004, pp. 165–168 , accessed December 26, 2011 (Spanish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Spanish-language version of Wikipedia states 1938 as the year of birth without reference
- ↑ Resoluciones adoptadas por el Consejo de la Facultad de Agronomía en Sesión Ordinaria de 5 de septiembre de 2011. Accessed December 26, 2011 (Spanish).
- ^ GG Roitman and A. Castillo: A new species, Herbertia crosae (Iridaceae), from Uruguay. (pdf; 135 kB) In: Brittonia 56 (4). 2004, accessed December 26, 2011 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crosa, Orfeo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crosa Nogara, Orfeo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |