Pierfelice (Pedro Félix, Pierre Félice) Ravenna (born 1938) is a
Chilean
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*List of Chileans
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botanist of
Italian Jewish
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origin. His research interests are mainly in the field of South American
Amaryllidaceae
The Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, mainly perennial and bulbous (rarely rhizomatous) flowering plants in the monocot order Asparagales. The family takes its name from the genus '' Amaryllis'' and is commonly known as the amaryl ...
.
[Ravenna P. 1974 Pierfelice Ravenna: an autobiography. Plant Life 30. (1-4): 6-10]
Selected publications
* 1970a. ''Nuevas especies de Amaryllidaceae''. Notic. Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Santiago 269 : 1-7
* 1970b. ''Contributions to South American Amaryllidaceae III''.
Pl. Life 37: 73–103, figs. 18-25
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* 1972. ''Latin American Amaryllidis 1971''. Pl. Life 28: 119–127, figs. 28-30
* 1974. ''Contributions to South American Amaryllidaceae VI''.
Pl. Life 30: 29-79
* 1978. ''Studies in the Alliaceae‑II (error tip. "Alliae”)''. Pl. Life 34 (2): 3-10
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* 1983. ''
Catila and Onira, two new genera of South American Iridaceae''. Nordic Journal of Botany 3 ( 2): 197-205
* 1988. ''New species of South American Habranthus and Zephyranthes (Amaryllidaceae)''. Onira 1 (8): 53-56
* 2000a. ''New or noteworthy Leucocoryne species (
Alliaceae
Allioideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales. It was formerly treated as a separate family, Alliaceae. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, ''Allium''. I ...
)''. Onira 4 (2): 3-10
* 2000b. ''The family
Gilliesiaceae''. Onira 4 (3): 11-14 (with key to genera)
* 2000c. ''
Miersia
''Miersia'' is a plant genus in the Amaryllidaceae. The genus has 10 known species, 9 of which are endemic to Chile and one, ''M. rusbyi'', endemic to Bolivia.
The genus name of ''Miersia'' is in honour of John Miers (1789–1879), a British bo ...
scalae, a synonym of
Gilliesia monophylla (Gilliesaceae). Onira 4 (8):30
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* 2003b. ''Los subgéneros de
Leucocoryne y la ilegitimidad de
Pabellonia (Alliaceae)'
Chloris Chilensis 6 ( 2)* 2005a. ''Gilliesia dimera and Gilliesia isopetala two new species from central Chile (Gilliesiaceae)''. Onira 9 (17): 60-63
* 2005b. ''
Solaria brevicoalita and S. curacavina two Chilean species of Gilliesiaceae''. Onira 9 (16): 64-67
* 2005c. ''On the absence of the genus Gilliesia (Gilliesiaceae) in the Argentine flora''. Onira 9 (15): 59
* 2005d. ''Especies nuevas de Gilliesia y Solaria (Gilliesiaceae) y claves para el reconocimiento de las especies de ambos géneros''
Chloris Chilensis 8 ( 1)
Awards
Awarded
The Herbert Medal
The Herbert Medal is awarded by the International Bulb Society to those whose achievements in advancing knowledge of ornamental bulbous plants is considered to be outstanding.[International Plant Names Index
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It inc ...]
lists 1,741 taxa for which Ravenna is the
botanical authority
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.
References
Bibliography
20th-century Chilean botanists
Chilean Jews
1938 births
Living people
Chilean people of Italian-Jewish descent
21st-century Chilean botanists
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