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Cavara, Fridiano (1857-1929)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Fridiano
Last name
Cavara
Initials
F.
Life Dates
1857 - 1929
Collecting Dates
1889 - 1925
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Fungi Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
NAP (main), B, BM, BPI, BUC, CGE, CUP, FH (currently GH), G, GB, GE, IBF, ISC, K, L, LE, MICH, MOD, MSC, NHES, NY, OSC, PAD, PAV, PC, POR, PRE, S, TLA, TO, UC, W
Countries
Europe: ItalyNorth Africa: Libya
Associate(s)
Briosi, Giovanni (1846-1919) (co-collector)
Grande, Loreto (1878-1965) (co-collector)
Pollacci, Gino (1872-1963) (co-collector)
Biography
Italian botanist who was director (1906-1929) of the Botanical Garden of the University of Naples where he founded the Experimental Station for Medicinal Plants (1928). He was primarily a mycologist who specialised in parasitic fungi and created exsiccatae. Many fungal taxa are named after him including Calocera cavarae Bres. & Cavara, Cercospora cavarae Sacc. & D. Sacc. and Septobasidium cavarae Bres. Material purchased by BM was mostly or all transferred to K (c. 1961) under the Morton Agreement.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 107; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 14; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 119; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 696;
Cavara, Fridiano (1857-1929)
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