Adriano Fiori (17 December 1865, Casinalbo – 5 November 1950, Casinalbo) was an Italian

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. He studied medicine and

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at the

University of Modena The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (), located in Modena and Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, is one of the oldest universities in Europe, founded in 1175, with a population of 20,000 students. The medieval university disappeared b ...

, then spent several years working as an assistant at the botanical institute in

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(1892–1900). From 1900 to 1913 he was a professor of natural sciences at the Forestry Institute of Vallombrosa, and from 1913 to 1936, he served as a professor in

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Fiori, Adriano (1865-1950) During his career, he travelled extensively throughout Italy, during which, he studied and collected many plant specimens. He also spent considerable time

botanizing Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empiri ...

in the Italian colony of

Eritrea Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa, with its capital and largest city being Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the Eritrea–Ethiopia border, south, Sudan in the west, and Dj ...

. He donated tens of thousands of specimens to the

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant biological specimen, specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sh ...

in Florence that included 1300 items from Eritrea. With Augusto Béguinot and

Renato Pampanini Renato Pampanini (1875-1949) was an Italian botanist and mycologist. Life Pampanini was born in Valdobbiadene, Italy in 1875. Pampanini studied at the University of Geneva, then in Lausanne and in Friborg. He presented his thesis at the Uni ...

Fiori edited and distributed the

exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...

''Flora Italica exsiccata'' and subsequent series.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.

Principal published works

* ''Flora analitica d'Italia'', (with Giulio Paoletti), 1896–1904. * ''Piante raccolte nella colonia eritrea nel 1909'' (Plants collected in the colony of Eritrea in 1909), 1913. * ''Nuova flora analitica d'Italia'', 1923–1929. * ''Iconographia florae italicae'' (with Giulio Paoletti), 1933. L'erbario, Dipartimento di Botanica - Università degli Studi di Catania
Adriano Fiori (1865 - 1950)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fiori, Adriano 1865 births 1950 deaths People from the Province of Modena 19th-century Italian botanists 20th-century Italian botanists