Sandro Pignatti

Alessandro "Sandro" Pignatti (born 28 September 1930) is an Italian botanist specialising in pteridophytes and spermatophytes.[1] The Australian plant species Calectasia pignattiana was named after him. On 31 May 1991 Pignatti received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.[2] He is an Honorary Member of the International Association for Vegetation Science (1997).[3]

The specific epithet of the Western Australian plant species, Calectasia pignattiana honoured "Professors Erika and Alessandro Pignatti of Rome on the occasion of their seventieth birthdays".[4]

The standard author abbreviation Pignatti is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
  1. ^ "Author Details". The International Plant Name Index. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  2. ^ "Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden".
  3. ^ http://iavs.org/Awards/Honorary-Members.aspx
  4. ^ Barrett, Russell L.; Dixon, Kingsley W. (2001). "A Revision of the Genus Calectasia (Calectasiaceae) with eight new species describe from south-west Western Australia". Nuytsia. 13 (3): 446. doi:10.58828/nuy00346. S2CID 257678685. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Pignatti.