> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 456](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333595) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9386-1) LSID 9386-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5725585) QID Q5725585 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Scortechini, Benedetto (1845-1886), Italian clergyman and botanist; in Queensland, Australia 1871-1884 as parish priest in Brisbane, Stanthorpe, Gympie and Roma; later resident in the Logan District; from 1884-1886 Government botanist of Perak, conducting a botanical survey of the Straits Settlements, Malay Peninsula. **Abbreviated name**: *Scortechini* \[standard form in IPNI: *Scort.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection CAL|CAL]]; further material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection M|M]] (lich.), [[Collection MEL|MEL]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NA|NA]], [[Collection PAD|PAD]], [[Collection SING|SING]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection UC|UC]], [[Collection US|US]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 392, 523; Barnhart 3: 251 (d. 4 Nov 1886); BB p. 270-271; Bossert p. 358; CSP 11: 370, 18: 643; Desmond p. 546; HR; IH 1 (ed. 2):35, (ed. 3): 40, (ed. 6): 364, (ed. 7): 342; Rehder 5: 788; Saccardo 1: 151, 2: 100; SK 1: xxix, 479-480 (detailed inf.), 4: cxxxvi; TL-2/9906, see R.T. Lowe; Urban-Berl. p. 395. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Gaz. 12: 44. 1887 (d.); Anon., Malpighia 1: 291. 1857; Nature 35: 157. 1887 (d.); Rev. mycol. 9: 123. 1887 (d.). - Beddome, R.H., J. Bot. 25: 321-325. *pl. 278.* 1887 (ferns collected in Perak by S.). - Burkill, I.H., Gard. Bull. Strait Settlem. 4: 131. 1927 (name sometimes wrongly given as Bertold). - Carr, D.J., & S.G.M. Carr, eds., People and plants in Australia 209. 1981. - Maiden, J.H., Rep. Australas. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 12. 381. 1910. - Narayanaswami, V., J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal ser. 2. 27: 329-331. 1933 (provenance Malayan coll.; labelling). - Ridley, H.N., Fl. Malay Pen. 1: xvi. 1922. - Saccardo, P.A. & A.N. Berlese, Atti r. 1st. venet. Sci. 3: 711-722. 1885 (on his Queensland fungi), 6: 388-389. 1887 (note on coll.). - Tryon, H., Proc. R. Soc. Queensland 4: 2-8. 1888 (obit.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 21. 1936. #### Eponymy *Neoscortechia* O. Kuntze (1903); *JVeoscortechinia* Pax (1897); *Scortechinia* P.A. Saccardo (1885); *Scortechinia* J.D. Hooker (1887); *Scortechinia* P.A. Saccardo (1891); *Scortechiniella* von Arx et E. Müller (1954); *Scortechiniellopsis* A. Sivanesan (1974). – According to Backer (p. 523) Scortechini's first name was sometimes given erroneously as Bertold, hence the eponym *Oberonia bertoldi* King.