Agostino Todaro Explained

Birth Place:Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Birth Date:14 January 1818
Death Place:Palermo, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Fields:Botany
Author Abbrev Bot:Tod.

Agostino Todaro (14 January 1818 – 18 April 1892) was an Italian botanist.

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, and it is named after Agostino Todaro.[1]

The standard botanical author abbreviation Tod. is applied to species he described.

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  1. Web site: Todaroa Parl. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 27 December 2021 . en.