Luigi Carlo Giuseppe Bertero (b. Santa Vittoria d'Alba, October 14, 1789 d. April 1831, – South Pacific Ocean) was an Italian physicist, physician, naturalist, botanist, bryologist and pteridologist.[1] He explored the West Indies between 1816 and 1821 coinciding with the Venezuelan scientist and later president, José María Vargas in Puerto Rico although there is no evidence of any exchange between them. During his two voyages, February 1828 to September 1830 and between March and May 1830, he collected and described the flora of Chile. He also examined plants native to the Pacific island of Juan Fernandez, as well as Guadeloupe, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Colombia.[2][3] He is presumed lost in a shipwreck while sailing from Tahiti to Chile.[2]
Bertero´s herbarium specimens were bought after his death by the joint stock company Unio Itineraria and distributed among its members in the exsiccata-like series Unio itineraria 1835.[4]
(Cactaceae) Opuntia berteri (C.F. Först.) E. F. Anderson
The following lichens are named in honor of Bertero:
Biatora berteroana Mont. (1852)
Brigantiaea berteroana (Mont.) Trevis. (1853)
Pseudocyphellaria berteroana (Mont.) Redon (1977)
Sticta berteroana Mont. (1835)
Lecidea berteroana (Mont.) Nyl. (1855)
Abbreviation (botany)
The standard author abbreviationBertero is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]. (see the list of all the genera and species described by this author in IPNI).
VIGNOLO-LUTATI, F.: L'opera botanica del dott. Carlo Bertero di S. Vittoria d'Alba (1789–1831) nelle antille e Sud-America (1816–21 e 1827–31) quale risulta dalle collezioni dell'ist. ed orto botanico d. Univ. di Torino.. Turín: Librería Le Colonne, 1955.
MATTIROLO, O.: Nel I centenario della trágica scomparsa del celebre botanico esploratore medico carlo bertero di santa vittoria d'alba. Estudio Bibliográfico: Bosio Giovanni - Magliano Alpi, 1932.
References
^"Index of Botanists". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
