Oreste Mattirolo (7 December 1856, in Turin – 3 December 1947, in Turin) was an Italian botanist and mycologist, who specialized in hypogeal fungi.
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He studied medicine and sciences at the University of Turin, and from 1879, continued his education at the University of Strasbourg as a pupil of Heinrich Anton de Bary.[1] In 1894 he became an associate professor at the University of Bologna, where he attained a full professorship during the following year. Later on, he served as a professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at the universities of Florence (1898–1900) and Turin (1900–37).[2]
The mycological genera Mattirolia (Berl. & Bres., 1889) and Mattirolomyces (E.Fisch., 1938) commemorate his name.[2]
Selected works
edit- Sul parassitismo dei Tartufi e sulla quistione delle mycorrhizae, 1887 – On the parasitism of truffles and the question of mycorrhizae.
- Reliquiæ Morisianæ; ossia, Elenco di piante e località nuove per la flora di Sardegna recentemente scoperte nell'erbario di G.G. Moris, 1892 – Reliquiae Morisianae; List of plants and locations concerning the flora of Sardinia recently discovered in the herbarium of Giuseppe Giacinto Moris.
- L'opera botanica di Ulisse Aldrovandi (1549-1605), 1897 – The botanical work of Ulisse Aldrovandi.
- Cenni chronologici sugli Orti Botanici di Firenze, 1899 – Chronological notes on the Botanical Gardens of Florence.[3]
- Giulio Camus e la sua opera botanica (1847-1917), 1917 – Giulio Camus and his botanical work.[4]
References
edit- ^ Mycological Writings of C. G. Lloyd, Volume 6 by Curtis Gates Lloyd
- ^ a b BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)
- ^ Google Search (published works)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Mattir.