> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 193](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258671) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3126-1) LSID 3126-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4007883) QID Q4007883 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Giacomini, Valerio (1914-1981), Italian bryogeographer, ecologist and conservationist, born 21 Jan 1914 in Fagagna (Udine), enrolled Univ. of Pavia 1933, postgraduate work in Jena, asst., agronomy faculty, Univ. of Florence 1940, imprisoned by the Wehrmacht in Poland and n. Germany, freed by British troops 1945, returned to Florence 1946 and then worked at a succession of Italian universities, died 6 Jan 1981 in Rome. **Abbreviated name**: *Giacom.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Giacom.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection HBBS|HBBS]], [[Collection PA|PA]], [[Collection RO|RO]]. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 225; Barnhart 2: 43; BFM p. 285 (index); BL 2: 334, 367, 659; DBI 54: 170-173; Ewan Pap. p. 78; GR p. 531; Hortus 3: 1193; Kew 2: 404; Roon p. 43; SBC p. 121; Zander ed. 17: 949. #### Biofile - De Marco, G. & A. Dinelli, 1974. Ann. Bot. (Rome) 33: 209. \[collected in Saudi Arabia 1967-1968\] - Fuchs, H.P., 1991. Bull. Murith. Soc. Valais. Sci. Nat. 109: 146-148. - Gehu, J.M. et al. (eds.), 1988. Studi sulla flora e vegetazione d'Italia. Braun-Blanquetia: recueil de travaux de geobotanique 2: 225 p. (bibl.) \[vol. in memory of Giacomini\] (n.v.) - Miller, A.G. et al., 1982. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 40: 49. (bibl.) - Pirola, A., 1981. Arch. Bot. Biogeogr. Ital. 56(1-2): 1-2. (n.v.) - Pirola, A., 1980-1981 \[i.e. 1983\]. Atti Inst. Bot. Univ. Lab. Crittogam. Pavia 14 (ser. 6): xvii-xix. - Tomaselli, R., 1981. Inform. Bot. Ital. 13(1): 13-31. (bibl., portr.) - Wickens, G.E., 1982. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 40: 313. #### Eponymy *Giacominia* Cif. & Tomas. (1953). #### Outside our period - (1) "Saggio fitogeografico sulle pteridofite d'Italia" \[i.e. an appendix\] *in* A. Fiori, *Filicinae, Equisetinae, Lycopodinae*... 1943. - (2) *Flora micologica dell'Agro Bresciano* (Hymenomyceteae, Helvellineae, Pezizineae) ... 1947. - (3) Co-author with Raffaele Ciferri (1897-1964) & P. Poggio, *La Flora fanerogamica della risaie dell'Italia transpadana*, &c.... 1949. - (4) Co-author with Raffaele Ciferri (1897-1964), *Nomenclator florae Italicae*... 1950. - (5) Co-author with Sandro Pignatti (1930-x), *Flora* e *vegetazione* dell'Alta *Valle* del *Braulio*,*con speciale riferimento ai pascoli di altitudine*... 1955. - (6) Author with Luigi Fenaroli (1899-1980) & Leo Ferlan (1928-1961), *La flora*... Milano (Touring club italiana) 1958. - (7) *Monografie sulla flora e vegetazione d'Italia*... (Flora et Vegetatio Italica, Memoria No. 1) 1959. - (8) *Il paesaggio vegetale* della provincia di *Sondrio*... (Flora et Vegetatio Italica, Memoria No. 3) 1960. - (9) *Italia verde*... \[Genoa?\] (Shell italiana) \[1970\]; \[Ed. 2\],... 1975. - (10) Co-author with Nunzio Longhitano & Linneo Corti, *Cartography* of the *vegetation* of the *Eastern (Hasa) Province* of *Saudi Arabia*... 1979. - (11) Translated into Italian the English-language textbook *Introductory botany*... ed. 2 (1971) by Arthur John Cronquist (1919-1992), which appeared as *Botanica*... Bologna (Zanichelli) 1979. ### Publications ##### n.36.344. Bryophytenkolonie **Title** Eine heterotopische, postglaziale *Bryophytenkolonie* aus der *Adamogellogruppe* (Italienische Zentralalpen)... Leiden (Chronica Botanica Co.) 1938. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep 1938 (in journal, p. 75 signed Apr 1938), cover-t.p., p. \[68\]-75. *Copy*: Gr-V. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Bryol. 11: 68-75. 1938.