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Orazio Comes (11 November 1848 – 13 October 1917) was an Italian 
In his works he studied the physiology and plant pathology of Neapolitan mushrooms and agricultural plants, such as beans and tobacco. From 1881, Comes began to deal with the cultivation of tobacco to improve industrial production and, starting from 1891, he emphasized the study and experimentation in that sector.
In 1958 the museum of the botanical institute of Portici, hosted in the
''Museo Botanico Orazio Comes''
Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II * * * 1848 births 1917 deaths 19th-century Italian botanists 20th-century Italian botanists {{Italy-botanist-stub
Orazio Comes (11 November 1848 – 13 October 1917) 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 ...
.
From 1906 to 1917 he directed the Agricultural Higher Institute of Portici
Portici (; ) is a town and municipality (''comune'') of the Metropolitan City of Naples in the region of Campania in Italy. It has 51,351 inhabitants.
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, in which, thanks to Vincenzo de Cesati
Vincenzo de Cesati (1806–1883) was an Italian botanist from Milan.
He studied natural history and law at the University of Vienna, and afterwards worked as a volunteer at the Collegium Nacionale de Vercelli. From 1868 to 1883 he was directo ...
, he began teaching since 1877 as assistant of Nicola Pedicino
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for the chair of botany, to whom he succeeded in 1880.
In his works he studied the physiology and plant pathology of Neapolitan mushrooms and agricultural plants, such as beans and tobacco. From 1881, Comes began to deal with the cultivation of tobacco to improve industrial production and, starting from 1891, he emphasized the study and experimentation in that sector.
In 1958 the museum of the botanical institute of Portici, hosted in the Royal Palace
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, was named after him.
He is honoured in the name of ''Comesia
''Comesia'' is a genus of fungi in the Helotiales order. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the order is unknown (''incertae sedis''), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any family.
The genus name of ''Comesia'' ...
'', a genus
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of fungi
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in the Helotiales
Helotiales is an order (biology), order of the class Leotiomycetes within the division Ascomycota. The taxonomy within Helotiales has been debated. It has expanded significantly as genomic techniques for taxonomical identification have become mor ...
order, circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
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in 1884.
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''Museo Botanico Orazio Comes''
Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II * * * 1848 births 1917 deaths 19th-century Italian botanists 20th-century Italian botanists {{Italy-botanist-stub