Luigi Aloysius Colla (30 April 1766 – 23 December 1848) was an Italian botanist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was a member of the Provisional Government of Savoy from December 12, 1798, to April 2, 1799, taking his turn as chairman of the government in rotation for a ten-day term.[1] In 1820 Colla described two species, Musa balbisiana and Musa acuminata, that are the basis for almost all cultivated bananas.[2] Colla was a member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.[3]
Luigi Aloysius Colla | |
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 Luigi Aloysius Colla | |
| Born | Luigi Aloysius Colla 30 April 1766 |
| Died | 23 December 1848 Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia |
| Nationality | Savoyard, Piedmontese |
| Occupation(s) | botanist, lawyer, politician |
| Known for | description of species on which most cultivars of bananas are based |
Bibliography
edit- L'antolegista botanico - Turin - Volume 1,[4] Volume 5,[5] Volume 6[6]
- Memoria sul genere Musa e monografia del medesimo - Turin[7]
- Observations sur le Limodorum purpureum de M. de Lamarck et création d'un nouveau genre dans la famille des Orchidées - Paris : Imprimerie Lebel[8]
- Hortus Ripulensis seu enumeratio plantarum quae Ripulis coluntur - Ed. Augustae Taurinorum[9]
- Mémoire sur le Melanopsidium Nigrum des jardiniers, et formation d'un genre nouveau dans la famille des rubiacées (1825)
- Illustrationes et icones rariorum stirpium quae in ejus horto Ripulis florebant, anno 1826, addita ad hortum Ripulensem appendice III (1826)
- avec Carlo Giuseppe Bertero - Plantae rariores in regionibus chilensibus - Deux tomes - Ex regia typographia (1832–1833)
- Herbarium Pedemontanum juxta Methodum Naturalem Dispositum Additis - Ed. Augustae Taurinorum - Tome 1 (1833), Tome 2 (1834), Tome 3 (1834), Tome 4,[10] Tome 6 (1836), Tome 7,[11] Tome 8[12]
- Osservazioni sovra una notizia pubblicata nel Messaggiere del 17 agosto 1842, num. 35 dal sig. Paolo Emilio Colombo circa l'Elephantusia macrocarpa del Willd (1842)
- Observations sur la famille des rutacées : sur le genre Correa et formation du nouveau genre Antommarchia (1843)
- Camelliografia ossia tentavio di una nuova disposizione naturale delle varietà della Camellia del Giappone - Turin[13]
Notes
edit- ^ "Italian states before 1861". rulers.org. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
- ^ "Musa paradisiaca". www.users.globalnet.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
- ^ "Haverford College Libraries - Special Collections - Robert B. Haines, III Collection". 2006-07-23. Archived from the original on 2006-07-23. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
- ^ Colla, Luigi (1813). L'antolegista botanico (in Italian). Coi tipi di D. Pane.
- ^ Colla, Luigi (1814). L'antolegista botanico (in Italian). Coi tipi di D. Pane.
- ^ Colla, Luigi (1814). L'antolegista botanico (in Italian). Coi tipi di D. Pane.
- ^ Colla, Luigi; Bonafous (1820). Memoria sul genere Musa e monografia del medesimo/dell' avvocato collegiato Luigi Colla... stampata nel tomo XXV delle Memorie dell' Accademia reale delle scienze di Torino a pagina 333 (in Italian).
- ^ Colla, Luigi (1824). Observations sur le Limodorum purpureum de Mr. de Lamarck (in French).
- ^ Colla, Luigi (1824). Hortus Ripulensis seu enumeratio plantarum quae ripulis coluntur: additis stirpium rariorum, vel nondum satis cognitarum, aut forte novarum notis, descriptionibus, et iconibus (in Latin). Regio Typographaeo.
- ^ Colla, Luigi (1835). Herbarium Pedemontanum juxta methodum naturalem dispositum: additis nonnullis stirpibus exoticis ad universos ejusdem methodi ordines exhibendos (in Latin). ex typis regiis.
- ^ Colla, Luigi (1837). Herbarium Pedemontanum (in Latin). Typ. regii.
- ^ Colla, Luigi (1824). Observations sur le Limodorum purpureum de Mr. de Lamarck (in French).
- ^ Camelliografia ossia tentavio di una nuova disposizione naturale delle varietà della camellia del Giappone e loro descrizione (in Italian). Giuseppe Pomba. 1843.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Colla.
References
edit- Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names - retrieved June 6, 2006
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