Carlo Giuseppe Bertero Explained

Carlo Giuseppe Bertero
Birth Date:October 14, 1789
Birth Name:Luigi Carlo Giuseppe Bertero
Birth Place:Santa Vittoria d'Alba, Italy
Death Date:April 1831
Death Place:South Pacific Ocean
Occupation:Botanist
Known For:Disappearance at sea

Luigi Carlo Giuseppe Bertero (b. Santa Vittoria d'Alba, October 14, 1789 d. April 1831, – South Pacific Ocean) was an Italian physicist, physician, naturalist, botanist, bryologist and pteridologist.[1] He explored the West Indies between 1816 and 1821 coinciding with the Venezuelan scientist and later president, José María Vargas in Puerto Rico although there is no evidence of any exchange between them. During his two voyages, February 1828 to September 1830 and between March and May 1830, he collected and described the flora of Chile. He also examined plants native to the Pacific island of Juan Fernandez, as well as Guadeloupe, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Colombia.[2] He is presumed lost in a shipwreck while sailing from Tahiti to Chile.[3] Bertero´s herbarium specimens were bought after his death by the joint stock company Unio Itineraria and distributed among its members in the exsiccata-like series Unio itineraria 1835.[4]

Eponyms

In 1834 Luigi Aloysius Colla named a species of cactus, Cactus berteroi, after Bertero. The species is now a synonym of Eriosyce subgibbosa.[5]

The genus Berteroa is named after Carlo Bertero.

The following lichens are named in honor of Bertero:

Abbreviation (botany)

. (see the list of all the genera and species described by this author in IPNI).

See also

Bibliography

VIGNOLO-LUTATI, F.: L'opera botanica del dott. Carlo Bertero di S. Vittoria d'Alba (1789–1831) nelle antille e Sud-America (1816–21 e 1827–31) quale risulta dalle collezioni dell'ist. ed orto botanico d. Univ. di Torino.. Turín: Librería Le Colonne, 1955.

MATTIROLO, O.: Nel I centenario della trágica scomparsa del celebre botanico esploratore medico carlo bertero di santa vittoria d'alba. Estudio Bibliográfico: Bosio Giovanni - Magliano Alpi, 1932.

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Index of Botanists. Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries. 27 December 2015.
  2. Global Plants. JSTOR. 27 December 2015.
  3. Bertero, Carlo Luigi Giuseppe (1789-1831). Global Plants. JSTOR. 27 December 2015.
  4. Web site: Unio itineraria 1835: IndExs ExsiccataID=1136383104 . IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 13 July 2024.
  5. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:301879-2 Cactus berteroi Colla
  6. Mém. Mus. Par. vil. (1821) 232; et Syst. ii 290 1821 (IK)
  7. Cact. Fl. Silvestre Chile 244. 1989 (IK)