> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 466](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355553) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/23348-1) LSID 23348-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q948840) QID Q948840 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Micheli, Pier' Antonio (Pietro Antonio) (1679-1737), Italian botanist, "oculatissimus Michelius" (L.), curator of the botanical garden of Firenze, "father of cryptogamy", founder of the Società botanica fiorentina; botanist to the grand duke of Tuscany. **Abbreviated name**: *P. Mich.* \[standard form in IPNI: *P.Micheli*\] #### Herbarium, manuscripts and types [[Collection FI|FI]]; the herbarium (30.000 specimens) contains plants collected by Micheli himself as well as by Petiver, Scheuchzer and Sherard. See Parlatore (1874). Further material at [[Collection BM|BM]]-SL, [[Collection CR|CR]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – Micheli's manuscripts are also at [[Collection FI|FI]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 150; Ainsworth p. 345 \[index\]; Backer p. 369; Barnhart 2: 486; BM 3: 1306; Bossert p. 266; Clokie p. 24; Dryander 1: 197, 241, 3: 35, 111, 644; DSB 9: 368-369; DTS 1: 189-190; Frank 3(Anh.): 65; GR p. 535; Hawksworth p. 184, 196; Hegi 7: 559; Herder p. 83, 154; Hortus 3: 1199 ("Micheli, P."); HU 480; IH 1 (ed. 6): 362, 2: 535; Jackson p. 13, 31, 433; Kelly p. 149; Kew 3: 676; Krempelh. 2: 20-27; Lasègue 21, 341; LS 17816-17817; Maiwald p. 151, 196; Moebius p. 96, 97, 108, 112, 115, 118, 136, 277; MW p. 321; NI 1363; Plesch p. 335-336; PR 6201-6203, 7950, 9104, 10440 (ed. 1: 6914-6916); Rehder 5: 571; Saccardo 1: 110. 2: 73, cron. xxvi-xxvii; SO add. 2521a\*; Stevenson p. 1251; TL-1/843; TL-2/4455; Tucker 1: 484. - Ainsworth, G. C., Dict. fungi ed. 6. 364-365. 1971 (Micheli is author of *Mucor, Tuber, Polyporus, Clathrus, Aspergillus*...). - Anon., Österr. bot. Z. 50: 346. 1900 (gift of herbarium specimens of Micheli to FI). - Baroni, E., Nuov. Giorn. ital. bot. scr. 2. 5(4): 341-352. 1898 (on mss. Flora fiorentina). - Buller, A. H. R., Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada sect. 4. ser. 3. 9: 1-25. 1915 (M. and the discovery of reproduction in fungi). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 433. 1880 (coll. at FI; Musci, in herb. Caruel at PI). - Cavara, F., Bot. Centralbl. 98: 464. 1905 (on Saccardo 1905, herb. specimens *Nov. gen. pl.*). - Cocchi, A., Elogio di Pietro Antonio Micheli, Firenze 1737, 93 p. - Dandy, J. E., The Sloane herbarium 163-164. 1958 (herb.). - De Toni, G. B., Contributo alla conoscenza delle relazione del patrizio Veneziano Pietro Antonio Micheli con Ulisse Aldrovandi. Modena, 1908 (Publ. 18 Jan 1909), 52 p. (Mém. Accad. Sci. Lett. Art. Modena); Ann. di Bot. 8: 617-685. 1910. (Luigi Anguillara & P. A. Micheli). - Fries, T. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(3): 53. 1909, 1(5): 252. 1911. - Hulth, J. M. & A. H. Uggla, Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(2): 45, 46, 49. 1943. - Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 282. 1864. - Kobayasi, Y., Japan. J. Bot. 54: 53-59. 1979. - Lacroix, A., Figures de savants 4: 218. 1938. - Laundon, J. R., 11: 14. 1979 (lichens at FI and BM). - Le Turquier de Longchamp, J. A., Concord. fig. crypt. Dillen 1820 (contains also concordance with Micheli plates), see TL-2/4455. - Lütjeharms, W. J., Gesch. Mykol. 259 \[index\]. 1936. - Martelli, U., Nuovo Giorn. bot. ital. 16(3): 193-261. Jul 1884 (on M's "Agaricini"). - Negri, G., Pier Antonio Micheli, botanico, in Colombaria "l'Avido", suppl. to Nuovo Giorn. bot. ital. 45(1): lxxxi-cvii. 1938, reprinted from Atti Soc. Colombaria Fiorentina (portr., biogr.). - O., Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 6: 272. 1824. - Parlatore, F., Coll. bot. mus. Florence 57-60. 1874 (herb. and mss.). - Pons, G., Nuov. Giorn. bot. ital. ser. 2. 5: 322-335. 1898 (on Ranunculus in his Cat. pl. agri florent.). - Ramsbottom, J., Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 27: 773-777. 1957 (on his *Nov. pl. gen.*). - Sachs, J. v., Hist. botanique 219, 451. 1892. - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 513. 1977 (bryoph. at FI). - Stafleu, F. A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 123, 250. 1974. - Steinberg, C., Webbia 34: 60. 1979. - Targioni-Tozzetti, G., Catalogus vegetabilium marinorum musei usui, ad secundam partem novorum generum plantarum P. A. Micheli inserviens. Florence 1826. Notizie della vita e delle opere di Pier' Antonio Micheli. Firenze, 1858, iii, vi, 446 p. (bibl.) (See also Bull. Soc. bot. France 6: 376-380. 1859). - Tassi, F., Bull. Lab. Orto bot. 7: 6, 17, 18. 1905 (M's activities in Siena). - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 163-164. 1903. #### Eponymy *Michelia*Linnaeus (1753); *Michelia*Adanson (1763); *Michelia* O. Kuntze (1891); *Micheliopsis*Hsuan Keng (1955); *Paramichelia*Hu (1940). *Note*: *Neomichelia* O. Penzig & P. A. Saccardo (1901) is dedicated to Pietro Antonio Michiel \[sic\] (1510-1576), Venetian patrician, connoisseur and collector of plants, one of the founders of the Hortus in Padova. Whether Saccardo's "journal" *Michelia*,Commentarium Mycologicum. Padua. Vol. 1-2. 1877-1882 is also dedicated to our author is not known with certainty. ### Publications ##### n.5973. Relazione dell'erba **Title** *Relazione dell'erba*detta da' botanici *Orobanche*e volgarmente succiamele, fiamma, e mal d'occhio. Che da molti anni in quà si è soprammodo propagata quasi per tutta la Toscana. Nella quale si dimostra con brevità, qual sia la vera origine di detta erba; perchè danneggi i legumi; e il modo di estirparla... in Firenze (Nella Stamp, di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi...) 1723. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Relaz. Orobanche*. **Notes** *Orig. ed*.: 1723, p. \[1\]-47. *Copy*: FI. *Post-linnaean extract*: 1754, p. \[1\]-34. *Copy*: FI. – *Compendia della relazione*del celebre botanico Pierantonio Micheli *intorno all'erba Orobanche*detta volgarmente Succiamele contenento l'unico e vero modo di estiparla... in Firenze (appresso Andrea Bonducci...) 1754. ##### n.5974. Nova plantarum genera **Title** *Nova plantarum genera*juxta Tournefortii mcthodum disposita/Quibus plantae mdcccc recensentur, scilicet fere mcccc nondum observatae, reliquae suis sedibus restitutae; quarum vero figuram exhibere visum fuit, eae ad dl aeneis tabulis cviii. graphice expressae sunt; adnotationibus, atque observationibus, praecipue fungorum, mucorum, affiniumque plantarum sationem, ortum, & incrementum spectantibus, interdum adjectis... Florentiae (Typis Bernardi Paperinii,...) 179. Folio (in sets of two). **Abbreviated title**: *Nov. pl. gen.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1729, p. \[i-xxiv\], 1-234, *pl*. *1-108*(uncol. copp.). *Copies*: FI, G, HU, NY, Stevenson, Teyler, US, USDA; IDC 6068. – Sixty plates for this volume are at BM. – Micheli's own copy containing some of the original drawings is at BM. *Additional volume*: see J. Targioni Tozzetti, *Cat. veg. marin.*edited by O. Targioni Tozzetti, Florentiae 1826, iv, 91 p., *3 pl*. *Facsimile ed*.: 1976, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd. 1976, with new introduction by D. L. Hawksworth, p. \[i-vi, introd.\], \[i-xxiv\], 1-232, *pl. 1-108. Copy*: U. ##### n.5975. Catalogus plantarum horti caesarei florentini **Title** Cl. Petri Antonii Michelii *Catalogus plantarum horti caesarei florentini*opus posthumum jussu societatis botanicac editum, continuatum; et ipsius horti historia locupletatum ab Jo. Targioni Tozzettio flor. med. d. rei herbariae prof. pub.... Florentiae (ex Typographia Bernhardi Paperinii) 1748. Qu. (in twos). **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. hort. florent.* **Notes** *Editor*and part author: Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti (1712-1783). *Publ*.: 1748, p. \[i\]-lxxxviii, \[1\]-185, *pl. 1-7*,uncol. copp., 1 map. *Copies*: FI, USDA.