Federico Delpino

Giacomo Giuseppe Federico Delpino (* December 27 1833 in Chiavari in Liguria, † 1905 in Naples ) was an Italian botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Delpino ".

Life and work

Federico Delpino studied mathematics in Genoa. He undertook in 1851 a short botanical journey to Constantinople and Odessa Opel and then entered the administrators. In 1864 he began to study the flowers institutions of the Milkweed Family Asclepiadaceae and its pollination by insects and made a number of surprising discoveries.

Then he looked in the same direction, other plant families, and devoted himself, when he was appointed by Filippo Parlatore in Florence to the wizard, complete botany.

In 1871 he received the natural history professor at the Academy of Forestry in Vallombrosa, and in 1873 he undertook a circumnavigation on the frigate Giuseppe Garibaldi, but returned in 1874 from Brazil to Italy, where he was appointed professor of botany at the University of Genoa in the following year. In 1886 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Being powerful teleological embossed approach was no longer divided in his time.

Delpino promoted biological knowledge of the plant, particularly in view of the flower biology. He is now next to Hermann Müller, with whom he maintained intense exchange, as the most important ecologist flowers this time. In this area, it was important correspondence Parter of Charles Darwin. He created a classification of the types of flowers in relation to their pollinators. Many of the terms are coined by him still in use today.

Works

• Sugli apparecchi della fecondazione nelle diante antocarpee ( Flor. 1867)
• Ulteriori Osservazioni sulla nel regno dicogamia vegetal (1868 )
• Ulteriori osservationi e Considerazioni sulla nel regno dicogamia vegetale.2 (IV ) Delle piante zoidifile. (1874 )