Antônio Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso explained

António Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso (1788–1848) was a Brazilian botanist, physician, and politician.^[1]

Silva Manso was born in Campinas, Brazil.^[2] Silva Manso was an expert on spermatophytes^[3] and the first person to classify the genus Cayaponia and the species Cayaponia espelina. He named the genus Cayaponia after the indigenous Cayapo people of Brazil.^[4] A genus of climbing shrubs, Mansoa, is named after him.^[5] He began work as a painter, as his father was a painter. He began studying botany in 1819 and became a licensed physician in 1820. He was also a member of the Brazilian General Assembly from 1834 to 1837.

He became involved in the Brazilian struggle for independence, which led to his murder in January 1848.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro -1919 - Page 88 "O cirurgião António Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso, de 60 annos, assassinado a 18 de janeiro de 18-18, natural de Itú, casado com d. Anna Brandina da Silva Manso, recom- mendado solemnemente, jáz no cemeterio, envolto no habito de S."
2. Web site: Silva Manso, António Luiz Patricio da (1788-1848). JSTOR. September 22, 2013.
3. Web site: Index of Botanists: Silva Manso, Antonio Luiz Patricio da. Harvard University Herbarium. September 22, 2013.
4. Web site: Cayaponia . Northeastern Illinois University . September 22, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120304024447/http://www.neiu.edu/~wacliffo/The%20Botany/C.pdf . March 4, 2012 .
5. Book: Lindley. John. Moore. Thomas. 718. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom, Part 2 L-Z. 1876. Longmans, Green, and Company. London.
6. Book: Botanical Abstracts. Williams and Wilkins Company. Baltimore, MD. 1922. 68. X.