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Pichi-Sermolli, Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe
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Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi Sermolli
Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli
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An Italian botanist. He was a specialist on the ecology and phytogeography of tropical Africa, and also worked in plant taxonomy and pteridology.
In 1935, he graduated with a degree in Natural History from University of Florence.
From 1935 to 1958, was an assistant at the Institute of Botany in the University of Florence.
From 1958 to 1959 became a professor of botany at the University of Sassari in Sardinia.
From 1959, Rodolfo was a professor at the Institute of Botany in the University of Genoa and director of the Botanical Garden.
Pichi was a member of the Linnaean Society of London, the Botanical Society of America and the American Society of Ferns, he received the Hailé Selassié prize for his work in Ethiopia. He was also made a professor emeritus by the University of Perugia, Italy.
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University of Florence
University of Sassari (Sardinia)
University of Genoa
Tropical Africa: Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, TanzaniaEurope: ItalyNorth Africa: LibyaCentral American Continent: Mexico
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Created: April 2026, C.Kemnitz
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Sources
Natural History Museum (BM) (2013). JSTOR: Global Plants: Pichi Sermolli, Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe (1912-2005). [online] JSTOR. Available at: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000006522
Wikipedia Contributors (2026). Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli. [online] Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo_Emilio_Giuseppe_Pichi-Sermolli
L’autore della collezione: Rodolfo E.G. Pichi Sermolli. (n.d.). Scheda di Approfondimento . [online] Available at: https://www.sma.unifi.it/upload/sub/estratti_monografie/botanica/protagonisti/_rodolfo-pichi-sermolli.pdf [Italian & English]
Moggi, G. (2007). In ricordo di Rodolfo E.G. Pichi Sermolli (1912-2005). Infromatore Botanico Italiano, [online] 39(Suppl. 1), pp.241–244. Available at: https://www.societabotanicaitaliana.it/sbi/IBI%2039%20S1%202007/241-258%20Biografie.pdf [Italian]
Image: Moggi, G. (2007). In ricordo di Rodolfo E.G. Pichi Sermolli (1912-2005). Informatore Botanico Italiano, [online] 39(Suppl. 1), pp.241–244. Available at: https://www.societabotanicaitaliana.it/sbi/IBI%2039%20S1%202007/241-258%20Biografie.pdf [Italian]