Pier Andrea Saccardo

Pier Andrea Saccardo

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Pier Andrea Saccardo (23 April 1845 in Treviso, Treviso – 12 February 1920
in Padua) was an Italian botanist and mycologist.
Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1900
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Life
Saccardo studied at the Lyceum in Venice, and then at the Technical Institute
of the University of Padua where, in 1867 he received his doctorate. He was an
Assistant to Roberto de Visiani (1800-1878) an Italian botanist, naturalist and
scholar. Then in 1869, he became a professor of Natural History in Padua. In
1876 he established the mycological journal Michelia which published many of
his early mycological papers. In 1879 he became a professor of Botany and
director of the botanical gardens of the university until 1915. He accumulated
around 70,000 fungal specimens encompassing over 18,500 different species for
his herbarium. Which is still stored at the university.
Saccardo's scientific activity focused almost entirely on mycology. He wrote
his first book in 1864 (when he was 19 years old), Flora Montellica: an
introduction to the flora Trevigiana. In 1872, he published Mycologiae Venetae
Specimen, in which he described some 1200 fungi species. He published over
140 papers on the Deuteromycota (imperfect mushrooms) and
the Pyrenomycetes. He was most famous for his Sylloge, which was a
comprehensive list of all of the names that had been used
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for mushrooms. Sylloge is still the only work of this kind that was both
comprehensive for the botanical kingdom Fungi and reasonably modern.
Saccardo also developed a system for classifying the imperfect fungi by spore
color and form, which became the primary system used before classification
by DNA analysis.
Chromotaxy scale
Saccardo's chromotaxy scale
Saccardo proposed this color scale in 1894, for standardizing color naming of
plant specimens.
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Selected publications
Indispensable in the history of mycology is his master work Sylloge fungorum omnium
hucusque cognitorum (Padua 1882–90, in nine volumes) followed by the 1931 edition in 25
volumes
Books
 Prospetto della Flora Trivigiana (Venice 1864)

 Bryotheca Tarvisina (Treviso 1864)
 Della storia e letteratura della Flora Veneta (Milan 1869)
 Sommario d'un corso di botanica (3rd ed., Padua 1880)
 Musci Tarvisini (Treviso 1872)
 Mycologiae Venetae specimen (Padua 1873)
 Mycotheca Veneta (Padua 1874–79)
 Michelis, commentarium mycologicum (Padua 1877 to 1882, 2 volumes.)
 Fungi italici autographie delineati et colorati (Padua 1877–86, with 1,500 tables)
Personal life
He had a son, Domenico Saccardo (1872 - 1952) and daughter, Neffe Francesco
Saccardo (1869 - 1896).
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Taxa named by him and in his honour

See also: Category: Taxa named by Pier Andrea Saccardo
Saccardo was one of the most prolific taxonomists in the history of Fungi. He
has described some 1200 fungi species, including 52 that were new to science
for one book.
He has also described 3 species of plants;
 Antennaria rectangularis Sacc., Harriman Alaska Exped 5: 34, pl. 3 (1904)
 Hibiscus pentacarpos var. albiflorus Sacc. ex Fiori, Nuov. Fl. Italia 2: 165
(1926) now a synonym of Kosteletzkya pentacarpos
 Ophrys integra Sacc., in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. iii. (1871) 165. now a synonym
of Ophrys apifera
He was honoured in the naming of various genera and species;
 Saccardoa Trevis. 1869, (Lichenes), synonym of Pseudocyphellaria Vain., 1890

 Saccardia Cooke 1878 (Saccardiaceae family) in Grevillea 7: 49 in 1878.
 Saccardoella Speg. 1879, (Sordariomycetes class) in Michelia 1(5): 461 in 1879.
 Saccardinula Speg. 1885 (Elsinoaceae family) in Anales Soc. Sci. Argent. 19: 257
in 1885.
 Pasaccardoa Kuntze 1891, (in the Asteraceae family.
 Saccardaea Cavara 1894 now a synonym of Venustosynnema ciliatum.
 Saccardophytum Speg., first published in Anales Soc. Ci. Argent. 53: 181 in
1902, now a synonym of Benthamiella.
 Saccardomyces Henn. 1904 (Trichosphaeriaceae family) in Hedwigia 43: 353 in
1904.
 Phaeosaccardinula Henn. 1905 (Chaetothyriaceae family) in Hedwigia 44: XIV,
67 in 1905.
 Neosaccardia Mattir. 1921 (fungi), synonym of Scleroderma Pers., 1801
The standard author abbreviation Sacc. is used to indicate this person as the
author when citing a botanical name.
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References
Other sources
 Meyers Konversations-Lexikon of 1890
 Davis, J. J. (August 1920) "Pier Andrea Saccardo" Botanical Gazette 70(2):
pp. 156–157
 Dörfelt, Heinrich and Heklau, Heike (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie (The
History of Mycology) Einhorn-Verlag E. Dietenberger, Schwäbisch
Gmünd, ISBN 3-927654-44-2

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Saccardo's chromotaxy scale

 Prospetto della Flora Trivigiana (Venice 1864)

Taxa named by him and in his honour

He was honoured in the naming of various genera and species;

 Saccardoa Trevis. 1869, (Lichenes), synonym of Pseudocyphellaria Vain., 1890

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