> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 445](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266752) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1435-1) LSID 1435-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3107130) QID Q3107130 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Casaretto, Giovanni|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Casaretto, Giovanni (1812-1879), Italian botanist, born in Genova, studied at the Scolopi in Carcare, medicine at the Università di Genova, botany with Viviani, travelled in the Crimea 1836, went to Brazil collecting plants. **Abbreviated name**: *Casar.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Casar.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TO|TO]] (private herbarium), further material at [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection G|G]]-DC, [[Collection M|M]] (Lich.). – Possibly also material at [[Collection GE|GE]] (see ÖBZ 44: 278. 1894) and other notices. Present situation not clear (see A. Lourteig 1971). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 319 (d. 17 Jun 1879, Chiavari, Italy); BM 1: 323; Bossert p. 67; CSP 1: 809, 7: 345; De Toni 1: xix; Hortus 3: 1190; IH 2: 118; Kew 1: 489; PR 1569, ed. 1: 1721; Saccardo 1: 46, 223; TL-2/1: 463-464; Tucker 1: 143; Zander ed. 10, p. 644, ed. 11, p. 732. #### Biofile - Anon., ÖBZ 44: 278. 1894 (collection (herb., library) given to GE); Magyar Növ. Lapok 3: 128. 1899. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 402. 1880 (herb. at TO). - Candolle, A.P. de, Mém. souv. 483. 1862. - Casaretto, G., Alcune delle piu rare e notabili piante del Monte di Portollno, Atti Soc. Econ. Chiavari 1868: 42. - Hooker, W.J., London J. Bot. 6: 481, 482. 1847 (C. was a resident at Genova when Hooker visited him, "herbarium is ultimately to be incorporated with... Turin", sic). - Lourteig, A., Taxon 20(4): 651-652. 1971 (notes on the collections of C.). - Mattirolo, O., Studi veg. Piemonte, publ. II, on Orto bot. Torino (on C's material). - Papavero, N., Essays on the history of Neotropical dipterology 347. 1975. - Souza Sobrinho, R.J. de, Insula 8: 17. 1976. - Steenis, C.G.G.J. van, Flora males. Bull. 15: 734. 1960 (dates on our TL-2/1040). - Urban, I. Fl. bras. 1(1): 10-11. 1906.