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Elsa Matilde Zardini
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Elsa Matilde Zardini (1949-2020) was an Argentinian/Paraguayan botanist, teacher, curator, and explorer. She made botanical expeditions in the US, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay. Three botanical taxon names were authored by Zardini. Her specialization was the flora of the Plata basin, with an emphasis on that of Paraguay.

Early life and education

In 1973 Zardini earned a master's degree in Science, and in 1974 a PhD, both at the National University of La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [1]

Career

Zardini was one of the disciples of the Argentinian botanist Ángel Lulio Cabrera [2] among them: Genoveva Dawson, [3] Otto Solbrig, [4] Jorge Morello, [5] Humberto A. Fabris (1924-1976), Delia Abbiatti, [6] Noemí Correa, [7] Delia Añón Suárez, [8] Cristina Orsi, [9] Amelia Torres, Aída Pontiroli, Jorge Crisci, Roberto Kiesling and Fernando Zuloaga. [10] 2011: she became associate curator of the Missouri Botanical Garden. [1] [11] Spermatophytes was an area of interest for her. [12]

Publications

Flora of the Guianas Onagraceae. . Zardini, Elsa M,j. Jansen-Jacobs, peter h. Raven. 1991.e. Vol. 10. Ed. Koeltz [13] [14]

American Cucurbitaceae useful to man: Whitaker, Thomas of the United States Department of Agriculture, Zardini, E.M. La Plata, October 7 to 14, 1980. Ed. Province of Buenos Aires Commission of Investigations Scientists,

The standard author abbreviation Zardini is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [15]

She died in 2020. [16]

Plants named by Zardini

Zardini named the plant taxa Lulia, Lulia nervosa, and Trichocline deserticola.

References

  1. ^ a b Brumitt, R.K. "Global Plants". Natural History Museum. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  2. ^ Spegazzini, Crios (2010). Flora of the Buenos Aires area / Flora de la provincia de buenos aires. [Place of publication not identified]: Nabu Press. ISBN  978-1149375891. OCLC  945912034.
  3. ^ Molina, José Antonio (2019). Applied Botany Botánica aplicada. Madrid: Dextra. ISBN  9788416898756. OCLC  1103679403.
  4. ^ Solbrig, Otto Thomas. (1994). So shall you reap : farming and crops in human affairs. Solbrig, Dorothy J., 1945-. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. ISBN  1559633085. OCLC  29428204.
  5. ^ Morello, Jorge (1984). Ecological profile of South America /Perfil ecológico de Sudamérica. Martínez, Jesús Manuel. [Madrid]: Ediciones Cultura Hispánica, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana. ISBN  8472323404. OCLC  13642551.
  6. ^ Natural History Museum. "Abbiatti, Delia (1918-) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  7. ^ Correa, Maevia Noemí (1955). "Argentinian orchids, Las orquídeas argentinas de la Tribu Polychondreae Schlechter: Subtribu Spiranthinae Pfitzer". Darwiniana. 11 (1): 24–88. ISSN  0011-6793. JSTOR  23211918.
  8. ^ Lorenzo, Chiara Di; Ceschi, Alessandro; Kupferschmidt, Hugo; Lüde, Saskia; Nascimento, Elizabeth De Souza; Santos, Ariana Dos; Colombo, Francesca; Frigerio, Gianfranco; Nørby, Karin; Plumb, Jenny; Finglas, Paul (April 2015). "Adverse effects of plant food supplements and botanical preparations: a systematic review with critical evaluation of causality". British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 79 (4): 578–592. doi: 10.1111/bcp.12519. ISSN  1365-2125. PMC  4386943. PMID  25251944.
  9. ^ Landrum, Leslie R. (1999). "Revision of Berberis (Berberidaceae) in Chile and Adjacent Southern Argentina". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 86 (4): 793–834. doi: 10.2307/2666170. JSTOR  2666170.
  10. ^ Zuloaga, Fernando O. (1994). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden. ISBN  0915279215. OCLC  30083456.
  11. ^ Bry, Charlene; Crosby, Marshall R.; Loewer, H. Peter (1989). A world of plants : the Missouri Botanical Garden. New York: Abrams. ISBN  0810917726. OCLC  19270680.
  12. ^ "International Plant Names Index". International Plant Names Index. 1984. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  13. ^ Zardini, Elsa M. (1991). Flora of the Guianas / Series A. Phanerogams. Fasc. 10, 98. Onagraceae. Königstein: Koeltz Scientific Books. ISBN  3874293270. OCLC  311339576.
  14. ^ Salomón, Luciana; Sklenář, Petr; Freire, Susana E. (2018-02-21). "Synopsis of Senecio series Culcitium (Asteraceae: Senecioneae, Senecioninae) in the Andean region of South America". Phytotaxa. 340 (1): 1–47. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.340.1.1. hdl: 11336/97275. ISSN  1179-3163.
  15. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Zardini.
  16. ^ "Index of Botanists: Zardini, Elsa Matilde". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries. Retrieved 28 March 2023.


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