Sandro Pignatti

Alessandro "Sandro" Pignatti (born 28 September 1930) is an Italian botanist specialising in pteridophytes and spermatophytes.^[1] The Australian plant species Calectasia pignattiana was named after him. On 31 May 1991 Pignatti received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.^[2] He is an Honorary Member of the International Association for Vegetation Science (1997).^[3]

The specific epithet of the Western Australian plant species, Calectasia pignattiana honoured "Professors Erika and Alessandro Pignatti of Rome on the occasion of their seventieth birthdays".^[4]

The standard author abbreviation Pignatti is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[5]

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"Author Details". The International Plant Name Index. Retrieved 14 December 2011.

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"Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden".

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http://iavs.org/Awards/Honorary-Members.aspx

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Barrett, Russell L.; Dixon, Kingsley W. (2001). "A Revision of the Genus Calectasia (Calectasiaceae) with eight new species describe from south-west Western Australia". Nuytsia. 13 (3): 446. doi:10.58828/nuy00346. S2CID 257678685. Retrieved 12 October 2020.

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International Plant Names Index. Pignatti.

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