Giuseppe Moretti (botanist)

Giuseppe Moretti (30 November 1782 in Roncaro – 1 December 1853) was an Italian botanist.[1]

He served as a professor of botany and as director of the botanical gardens at the University of Pavia[2] (1826–1853). The genus Morettia (family Brassicaceae) was named in his honor by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.[3]

Giuseppe Moretti's ex libris
Giuseppe Moretti's ex libris

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