Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (23 January 1895 in

Pergamino Pergamino () is an Argentine city in the Buenos Aires Province, Province of Buenos Aires. It has a population of about 104,985 inhabitants as per the and is the administrative seat of its county, Pergamino Partido. Its UN/LOCODE is ARPGO. Histor ...

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– 21 April 1966 in

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) was an Argentine

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 ...

and

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. Parodi studied at the

University of Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires (, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the second-oldest university in the country, and the largest university of the country by enrollment. Established in 1821 ...

Faculty of Agronomy under Lucien Leon Hauman 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 plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s from Argentina, belonging to the family

Brassicaceae Brassicaceae () or (the older but equally valid) Cruciferae () is a medium-sized and economically important Family (biology), family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family. Most are herbaceous pla ...

, 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 ...

'', a genus of flowering plants from Argentina belonging to the family

Verbenaceae The Verbenaceae ( ), the verbena family or vervain family, is a family of mainly tropical flowering plants. It contains trees, shrubs, and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell. T ...

. 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

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Picrodendraceae Picrodendraceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 80 speciesStephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/ in 25 genera. These are subtropical to Tropics, ...

, and lastly in 2008, '' Parodiophyllochloa'' is a genus of

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n plants in the

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

.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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