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Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon (5 June 1818, in Padua – 8 April 1897, in Milan) was an Italian botanist who specialized in cryptogamic flora. He edited the exsiccata Lichenotheca Veneta.[1]
During his career, he was a professor of natural history in Padua. In 1882, he was named president of the Accademia fisio-medica-statistica in Milan.[2][3]
In 1848, he circumscribed the genus Romanoa (family Euphorbiaceae) [4] and in 1861, named the genus Speerschneidera (family Bacidiaceae).[5][6] In 1888, he circumscribed the (Algae) genus Nocardia (family Nocardiaceae) that is now classed as bacteria.[7] Also, he is also the taxonomic authority of the fern genera Blechnopteris (synonym of Blechnum L.[8]), Neurosorus (synonym of Coniogramme Fée,[9])and Oligocampia (synonym of Athyrium Roth[10]).[11]
- Prospetto della flora euganea, 1842.
- Le alghe del tenere udinese, 1844.
- Nomenclator algarum, ou Collection des noms imposés aux plantes de la famille des algues, 1845.
- Saggio di una monografia delle alghe coccotalle, 1848.
- Caratteri di dodici nuovi generi di licheni, 1853.
- Schema di una nuova classificazione delle epatiche, 1877.
- L'opera lichenologica di Vittore Trevisan (1994).[12]
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