Benedetto Scortechini Explained

Benedetto Scortechini
Birth Date:1845
Birth Place:Cupramontana, Papal States
Death Date:November 4, 1886
Death Place:Calcutta, India
Fields:Botany
Nationality:Italian
Author Abbrev Bot:Scort.

Benedetto Scortechini (1845–1886) was an Italian botanist, explorer, and Roman Catholic priest.

Biography

He graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome as a priest and a lawyer. Accompanied by the priest Jerome Davadi (1846–1900) and one other Italian priest, Scortechini arrived in Brisbane on 28 February 1871.[1] The three Italian priests were brought, shortly after the end of the First Vatican Council, to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane by Bishop James Quinn, the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane. After briefly working in Stanhope, Victoria and in Roma, Queensland, Scortechini was stationed in Gympie, Queensland from 1873 to 1875.[2] In 1875 he was appointed the pastor of Logan Parish within the County of Ward, Queensland, where he remained the pastor for nine years until he left Australia in 1884.[3]

George King, Director of the Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta, arranged with Sir Hugh Low, the British Resident at Perak, to employ plant collectors to work in Peninsular Malaysia.[4] As part of this programme, King and Low recruited Hermann H. Kunstler (1837–1887)[5] and Scortechini. Botanical specimens were sent to George King in Calcutta with duplicates sent to Kew Gardens.[4]

Upon his death, Scortechini's collections were given to the Calcutta herbarium.[2]

Eponyms

Genus

Species

Selected publications

References

  1. Web site: Southern Free Times Warwick. MacMaurice, Robert. Fruit industry pioneer a priest (biographical sketch of Jerome Davadi). 31 July 2014.
  2. Web site: Scortechini, Benedetto (1845-1886). JSTOR Global Plants.
  3. Web site: Scortechini, Benedetto (1845 - 1886). Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria, Australian National Herbarium, Biographical Notes.
  4. Kiew, Ruth. Clarification of Hermann H. Kunstler's botanical collecting localities in Peninsular Malaysia. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore. 65. 2. 149–156.
  5. Web site: Kunstler, Hermann H. (1837-1887). JSTOR Global Plants.
  6. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 74(3): 671 1908 (IK)
  7. Gard. Bull. Singapore 14: 244 1955 (IK)
  8. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 53(Mém. 4 (2)): 136 1906 (IK)
  9. Web site: Hoya scortechini. myhoyas.com.
  10. Rodda, Michele. Ang, W. F.. Hoya caudata Hook. f.(Apocynaceae), a new record for Singapore, and keys to the Hoya species of Singapore. Nature in Singapore. 5. 2012. 123–128.
  11. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 9, 9: 345. 1909 (IK)
  12. https://www.gbif.org/species/3038985 Schefflera hullettii R. Vig, gbif.org
  13. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 735. 1942 (IK)
  14. Blumea 55(3): 239 2010
  15. http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Apocynaceae/Secamone/ Secamone, The Plant List
  16. Reinwardtia 9 1974 (APNI)
  17. Blumea vii. 182 1952 (IK)
  18. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 31(1): 44. 1971 (IK)
  19. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2767655 Didymocarpus scortechinii, The Plants List
  20. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3306057&view=1up&seq=544 Bull. Soc. Bot. France 41: 538. 1894
  21. https://www.gbif.org/species/4002821 Baranthus axanthus Miq., gif.org
  22. Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 27(4) 1902 (APNI)
  23. https://austplants.com.au/Spyridium-scortechinii-Cotton-Bush Spyridium scortechinii, Australian Plants Society NWS
  24. Indian Forester lxxxix. 609 1963 (IK)
  25. http://theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-89672 Geophila scortechinii, The Plants List
  26. Nat. Pflanzenfam. [Engler & Prantl] iii. 6 188. 1895 (IK)
  27. Notul. Syst. (Paris) 1: 376. 1911 (IK)
  28. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:870625-1 Tetrastigma scortechniii, Kewscience, Plants of the World online

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