Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon


Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon was an Italian botanist who specialized in cryptogamic flora.
During his career, he was a professor of natural history in Padua. In 1882 he was named president of the Accademia fisio-medica-statistica in Milan. In 1848 he circumscribed the genus Romanoa and in 1861 named the genus Speerschneidera. Also, he is the taxonomic authority of the fern genera Blechnopteris, Neurosorus and Oligocampia.

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