Person
Beccari, Odoardo (1843 - 1920)
- Born
- 16 November 1843
Florence, Italy - Died
- 25 October 1920
Florence, Italy - Occupation
- Botanist and Collector
Summary
Odoardo Beccari was a botanist and plant collector who between 1865 and 1878 travelled widely in southeast Asia, spending several years resident in Sarawak, and made significant collections of specimens. His 1872 visit to New Guinea with ornithologist Luigi D'Albertis resulted in considerable ethnographic and zoological collections, especially birds of paradise. In 1878 Beccari visited Australian and New Zealand. During this visit he met Ferdinand von Mueller, the two later collaborating extensively on the flora of New Guinea. Beccari described over 500 new species and 35 new genera of plants, many of them palms, and published major works on the palm floras of Asia, the Pacific, Cuba and Madagascar. Several plant genera were named in his honour including Beccarinda and Beccariophoenix.
Details
Chronology
- 1877 - 1878
- Life event - Travelled through Australia and New Zealand
- 1879 - 1880
- Career position - Director, Botanic Gardens, Florence, Italy
Related entries
Published resources
Book Sections
- Pichi Sermolli, R. E. G.; and Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, 'Dedication (biography of Odoardo Beccari)' in Flora malesiana series I - Spermatophyta, Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed., vol. 9 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979), pp. 7-44. Details
Journal Articles
- Dowe, John Leslie, 'Odoardo Beccari and Enrico D'Albertis in Australia and New Zealand, 1878: botanical and zoological collections', Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 150 (2) (2016), 27-41. Details
- Moore, Harold E., 'Odoardo Beccari (1843 - 1920)', Principes, 25 (1981), 29-35. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q361037. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/12413211. Details
- 'Beccari, Odoardo (18431116-19201025)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1073431. Details
See also
- Van Steenis-Kruseman, M. J., Malaysian plant collectors and collections: being a cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950 (Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff NV, 1950), clii, 639 pp. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 5 December 2017, Last modified: 3 July 2018