Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon
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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 (family Euphorbiaceae) and in 1861, named the genus Speerschneidera (family Bacidiaceae). In 1888, he circumscribed the (Algae) genus Nocardia (family Nocardiaceae) that is now classed as bacteria. Also, he is also the taxonomic authority of the fern genera Blechnopteris (synonym of Blechnum L.), Neurosorus (synonym of Coniogramme Fée,)and Oligocampia (synonym of Athyrium Roth).
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