Carlo Allioni was an Italian

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 physician

Physician

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 and professor of botany at the University of Turin

University of Turin

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. His most important work was Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii 1755, a study of the plant world in Piedmont

Piedmont

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, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown. In 1766, he published the Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium.

In April, 1758 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He was appointed extraordinary professor of botany at the University of Turin in 1760 and was also the director of the Turin Botanical Garden.

Linnaeus named the New World herb genus Allionia

Allionia

Allionia, commonly known as windmills or trailing four o'clock, is a genus of two species widespread in the western hemisphere...

(Nyctaginaceae) after Allioni. Per Axel Rydberg

Per Axel Rydberg

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 named the genus Allioniella (now Mirabilis

Mirabilis (plant)

Mirabilis is a genus of plants in the family Nyctaginaceae known as the four o'clocks. The best known species may be Mirabilis jalapa, the plant most commonly called four o'clock....

), after him. Also named after him are:

• Arabis allionii
• Jovibarba allioni
• Primula allioni
• Veronica allionii

Selected works

• Flora Pedemontana, sive, Enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii (1755)
• Auctarium ad floram Pedemontanam cum notis et emendationibus (1789)
• Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis Enumeratio methodica cum Elencho aliquot anirnalium ejusdem maris (1757)

Further reading

• Caramiello, R. & Forneris, G. (2004) Le opere minori di Carlo Allioni: dal «Rariorum Pedemontii stirpium» all'«Auctarium ad Floram Pedemontanam». Firenze: Edizioni Olschki ISBN 8822253787

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