Carlo Antonio Venturi

Carlo Antonio Maria Venturi (Brescia, 11 October 1805 – 1864) was an Italian mycologist.[1] In 1842 he published Mycological Studies, in which he described sixty-two species of fungi. In 1845 he published miceti dell'agro bresciano descritti ed illustrati con figure tratte dal vero.

In 1882, Pier Andrea Saccardo published Venturia, which is a genus of fungi in the family Venturiaceae and it was named in Venturi's honour.[2] Then in 1919, Hans Sydow and Paul Sydow circumscribed Neoventuria, which is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. Lastly, in 1978, Venturiocistella (Sacc. & Romell) Raitv. 1978 another genus of fungi (in Hyphodiscaceae family). [3]

  1. ^ "Antonio VENTURI". Accademia delle Scienze, Torino. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Venturia Sacc. 1882". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-10-03.
  3. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.