Giuseppe Moretti (botanist) explained

Giuseppe Moretti (30 November 1782 in Roncaro – 1 December 1853) was an Italian botanist.^[1]

He served as a professor of botany and as director of the botanical gardens at the University of Pavia^[2] (1826–1853). The genus Morettia (family Brassicaceae) was named in his honor by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1821.^{[3] [4]}

Published works

• Osservazioni sopra diverse specie di piante indigene dell'Italia, 1818.
• Il botanico italiano, ossia, Discussioni sulla flora italica, 1826.
• Prodromo di una monografia delle specie del genere Morus, 1842
• Sugli Anacardi orientale e occidentale (Semecarpus anacardium, Linn. fil. et Anacardium occidentale, Linn.), 1851.^[5]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=BQ1KAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Giuseppe+Moretti%22+1782&pg=PR30 Ampelografia: descrizione delle migliori varietà di viti per uve ..., Volume 1
2. Web site: Part of his library has been digitized and is available on the BEIC web site.
3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355664 BHL
4. Web site: Morettia DC. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 18 May 2021 . en.
5. http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22Moretti%2C+Giuseppe%22 OCLC Classify