Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon explained

Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon (5 June 1818, in Padua  - 8 April 1897, in Milan) was an Italian botanist who specialized in cryptogamic flora.

During his career, he was a professor of natural history in Padua. In 1882, he was named president of the Accademia fisio-medica-statistica in Milan.^{[1] [2]}

In 1848, he circumscribed the genus Romanoa (family Euphorbiaceae) ^[3] and in 1861, named the genus Speerschneidera (family Bacidiaceae).^{[4] [5]} In 1888, he circumscribed the (Algae) genus Nocardia (family Nocardiaceae) that is now classed as bacteria.^[6] Also, he is also the taxonomic authority of the fern genera Blechnopteris (synonym of Blechnum L.^[7]), Neurosorus (synonym of Coniogramme Fée,^[8])and Oligocampia (synonym of Athyrium Roth^[9]).^[10]

Selected works

• Prospetto della flora euganea, 1842.
• Le alghe del tenere udinese, 1844.
• Nomenclator algarum, ou Collection des noms imposés aux plantes de la famille des algues, 1845.
• Saggio di una monografia delle alghe coccotalle, 1848.
• Caratteri di dodici nuovi generi di licheni, 1853.
• Schema di una nuova classificazione delle epatiche, 1877.
• L'opera lichenologica di Vittore Trevisan (1994).^[11]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Paola Zocchi . Il Museo civico di storia naturale di Milano . April 17, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130717231446/http://www.milanocittadellescienze.it/contents/cantieri/pdf/zocchi1.pdf . July 17, 2013.
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=xEtTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA741 Google Books
3. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40026751 Tropicos
4. http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?SearchWord=speerschneidera Index Nominum Genericorum database
5. http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?Link=T&TableKey=14682616000000067&Rec=98228&Fields=All Mycobank
6. Lu SH, Qian ZW, Mou PP, Xie L . Clinical Nocardia species: Identification, clinical characteristics, and antimicrobial susceptibility in Shandong, China . Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences . 20 . 4 . 531–538 . November 2020 . 32415818 . 7664795 . 10.17305/bjbms.2020.4764 .
7. Web site: Blechnopteris Trevis. . www.gbif.org . 24 August 2022 . en.
8. Web site: Neurosorus Trevis. . www.gbif.org . 24 August 2022 . en.
9. Web site: Oligocampia Trevis. . www.gbif.org . 24 August 2022 . en.
10. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Trevis.&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI
11. http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22Trevisan%2C+Vittore.%22 OCLC Classify