Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (born 23 January 1895 in Pergamino,

Buenos Aires Province Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...

- died 21 April 1966 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentinian

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

and agronomist. Parodi studied at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Agronomy under

Lucien Leon Hauman Lucien Leon Hauman-Merck (8 July 1880, in Ixelles – 16 September 1965, in Brussels) was a Belgian botanist, who studied and collected plants in South America and Africa. He received his education in Gembloux, and afterwards relocated to Argentin ...

and in 1926 took Hauman's place as professor of botany. Several plant genera, have been named in his honour; in 1929, '' Parodiodoxa'', a genus of flowering plants from Argentina, belonging to the family Brassicaceae, then in 1941, ''

Parodianthus ''Parodianthus'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Verbenaceae. Its native range is northern Argentina. The genus name of ''Parodianthus'' is in honour of Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (1895–1966), an Argentinian botanist and ag ...

'', a genus of flowering plants from Argentina belonging to the family Verbenaceae. Followed by in 1969, ''

Parodiodendron ''Parodiodendron'' is a monotypic plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae, described as a genus in 1969. The sole species is ''Parodiodendron marginivillosum'' . It is found in northern Argentina (Jujuy and Salta Provinces), Bolivia (Tarija ...

'', a genus under the family

Picrodendraceae Picrodendraceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 80 species in 24 genera.Stephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/ These are subtropical to tropical ...

, and lastly in 2008, ''

Parodiophyllochloa ''Parodiophyllochloa'' is a genus of Latin American plants in the grass family. The genus name of ''Parodiophyllochloa'' is in honour of Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (1895–1966), an Argentinian botanist and agricultural engineer, professor of bota ...

'' is a genus of Latin American plants in the

grass family Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and ...

.Morrone, O., S. S. Denham, S. S. Aliscioni & F. O. Zuloaga. 2008. ''Parodiophyllochloa'', a new genus segregated from ''Panicum'' (Paniceae, Poaceae) based on morphological and molecular data. Systematic Botany 33(1): 66–76.

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1895 births 1966 deaths 20th-century Argentine botanists People from Pergamino {{Argentina-botanist-stub