Adriano Fiori Explained

Adriano Fiori (17 December 1865, Casinalbo – 5 November 1950, Casinalbo) was an Italian botanist.

He studied medicine and natural sciences at the University of Modena, then spent several years working as an assistant at the botanical institute in Padua (1892–1900). From 1900 to 1913 he was a professor of natural sciences at the Forestry Institute of Vallombrosa, and from 1913 to 1936, he served as a professor in Florence.^{[1] [2]}

During his career, he travelled extensively throughout Italy, during which, he studied and collected many plant specimens. He also spent considerable time botanizing in the Italian colony of Eritrea. He donated tens of thousands of specimens to the herbarium in Florence that included 1300 items from Eritrea.^[2] With Augusto Béguinot and Renato Pampanini Fiori edited and distributed the exsiccata Flora Italica exsiccata and subsequent series.^{[3] [4]}

Principal published works

• Flora analitica d'Italia, (with Giulio Paoletti), 1896–1904.
• Piante raccolte nella colonia eritrea nel 1909 (Plants collected in the colony of Eritrea in 1909), 1913.^[5]
• Nuova flora analitica d'Italia, 1923–1929.
• Iconographia florae italicae (with Giulio Paoletti), 1933.^{[6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/f/187057.html UNI-Goettingen
2. http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000002587 JSTOR Global Plants
3. Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
4. Web site: Flora Italica exsiccata: IndExs ExsiccataID=1252863743 . IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 29 July 2024.
5. https://books.google.com/books/about/Piante_raccolte_nella_colonia_eritrea_ne.html?id=oVAGoAEACAAJ Google Books
6. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Fiori,%20Adriano,%201865-%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library
7. http://www.dipbot.unict.it/erbario/Fiori.html L'erbario, Dipartimento di Botanica - Università degli Studi di Catania