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unusual facts about Pier Andrea Saccardo


Saccardo

Pier Andrea Saccardo (23 April 1845 in Treviso, Treviso – 12 February 1920 in Padua ) was an Italian botanist and mycologist.


Austroboletus lacunosus

Suillus lacunosus was proposed by Otto Kuntze in 1898 as a new name for the species, and because of its earlier publication date, takes precedence over the superfluous name Boletus cookei proposed by Pier Andrea Saccardo and Hans Sydow in 1899.

Cortinarius caperatus

Later it was transferred to Pholiota in 1887 by Pier Andrea Saccardo, and then Rozites (after mycologist Ernst Roze) by Finnish mycologist Petter Adolf Karsten in 1879, and was known as Rozites caperata (Pers.) P. Karst.


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