Bibliographic Detail
Ucria B. da , 1793
Reference:
Ucria B. da (1793). Plantae ad Linnaeanum opus addendae et secundum Linnaei systema noviter descriptae a patre Bernardino da Ucria. Nuova raccolta di opuscoli di autori siciliani. Tomo VI. . Palermo: Solli.
Location:
Palermo
Notes:
Michelangelo Aurifici (or Auriferi), better known as Bernardino da Ucria (1739 – 1796), was a Franciscan friar, botanist and demonstrator at the Royal Palermo Botanical Academy (Sicily, Italy) who followed the Linnaean system of classification (Stafleu & Cowan 1986). He published a rare work entitled Plantae ad Linnaeanum opus addendae in 1793 (Ucria 1959: 5). Stafleu & Cowan (1986) considered that the original publication was in “Nuova raccolta di opuscoli di autori Siciliani 6, 1788” (not seen by them) and in Roemer (1796). The 32 species that appear in Ucria’s work had been previously described in Cupani’s Panphyton siculum (Cupani 1713). Francesco Cupani (1657 – 1710) tried to describe the botanical and other natural riches of Sicily using a pre-Linnaean system consisting of brief descriptions accompanied by an illustration called a “polilogus”... (Ferrer-Gallego & Boisset 2020: 174).
