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Agostino Todaro
Italian botanist (1818–1892) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Agostino Todaro (14 January 1818 – 18 April 1892) was an Italian botanist.
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Agostino Todaro | |
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![]() Bust of Todaro in the Orto botanico di Palermo | |
Born | (1818-01-14)14 January 1818 |
Died | 18 April 1892(1892-04-18) (aged 74) Palermo, Italy |
Nationality | Italian |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Tod. |
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He was born and died in Palermo, Italy. He was a professor of botany and became the director of the botanical gardens in Palermo. He published the Hortus Botanicus Panormitanus in 1876–1878.
In 1843, botanist Filippo Parlatore published Todaroa, which is a genus of flowering plants from the Canary Islands, belonging to the family Apiaceae. It just contains one known species, Todaroa aurea (Aiton) Parl., and it is named after Agostino Todaro.[1]
The standard botanical author abbreviation Tod. is applied to species he described.