Michelangelo Console (

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for it ...

, 24 July 1812 –

, 13 May 1897) was an Italian botanist primarily known for his work on

cacti A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Gree ...

Life and work

Michelangelo Console was professor of botany at the

Palermo Botanical Garden The Orto Botanico di Palermo (''Palermo Botanical Garden'') is both a botanical garden and a research and educational institution of the Department of Botany of the University of Palermo. The garden lies within the city of Palermo, Italy at ...

, where he worked with French botanist

Charles Antoine Lemaire Charles Antoine Lemaire (1 November 1800, in Paris – 22 June 1871, in Paris), was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae. Education Born the son of Antoine Charles Lemaire and Marie Jeanne Davio, he h ...

. Console described the cactus genus '' Myrtillocactus'' in 1897, shortly before his death.

named the cactus genus '' Consolea'' in honor of Console.

Selected works

* ''Su taluni casi morfologici nella famiglia delle Cactaceae''. In: ''Il Naturalista siciliano''. Palermo 1883, p. 78–79
Online
* ''Myrtillocactus, nuovo genere di Cactaceae''. In: ''Bollettino del Reale Orto Botanico di Palermo''. Vol. 1, No. 1, 1897, p. 8–10.

References

Italian botanists Scientists from Palermo 1812 births 1897 deaths {{Botanist-stub