Elsa Matilde Zardini (1949-2020) was an Argentinian-Paraguayan botanist, teacher, curator, and explorer. She made botanical expeditions in the US, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. Three botanical taxon names were authored by Zardini. Her specialization was the flora of the Plata basin, with an emphasis on that of Paraguay.

Elsa Matilde Zardini
DiedVilla Elisa Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Raúl Zardini Edit this on Wikidata
Awards

Early life and education

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In 1973 Zardini earned a master's degree in Science, and in 1974 a PhD, both at the National University of La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1]

Career

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Zardini was one of the disciples of the Argentinian botanist Ángel Lulio Cabrera[2] among them: Genoveva Dawson,[3] Otto Solbrig,[4] Jorge Morello,[5] Humberto A. Fabris (1924-1976), Delia Abbiatti,[6] Noemí Correa,[7] Delia Añón Suárez,[8] Cristina Orsi,[9] Amelia Torres, Aída Pontiroli, Jorge Crisci, Roberto Kiesling and Fernando Zuloaga.[10] In 2011 she became associate curator of the Missouri Botanical Garden.[1][11] Spermatophytes was an area of interest for her.[12]

She died in 2020.[13]

Publications

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Flora of the Guianas Onagraceae. . Zardini, Elsa M,j. Jansen-Jacobs, peter h. Raven. 1991.e. Vol. 10. Ed. Koeltz[14][15]

American Cucurbitaceae useful to man: Whitaker, Thomas of the United States Department of Agriculture, Zardini, E.M. La Plata, October 7 to 14, 1980. Ed. Province of Buenos Aires Commission of Investigations Scientists,

The standard author abbreviation Zardini is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[16]

Plants named by Zardini

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Zardini named the plant taxa Lulia, Lulia nervosa, and Trichocline deserticola.

References

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  1. ^ a b Brumitt, R.K. "Global Plants". Natural History Museum. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  2. ^ Spegazzini, Crios (2010). Flora of the Buenos Aires area / Flora de la provincia de buenos aires. [Place of publication not identified]: Nabu Press. ISBN 978-1149375891. OCLC 945912034.
  3. ^ Molina, José Antonio (2019). Applied Botany Botánica aplicada. Madrid: Dextra. ISBN 9788416898756. OCLC 1103679403.
  4. ^ Solbrig, Otto Thomas. (1994). So shall you reap : farming and crops in human affairs. Solbrig, Dorothy J., 1945-. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. ISBN 1559633085. OCLC 29428204.
  5. ^ Morello, Jorge (1984). Ecological profile of South America /Perfil ecológico de Sudamérica. Martínez, Jesús Manuel. [Madrid]: Ediciones Cultura Hispánica, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana. ISBN 8472323404. OCLC 13642551.
  6. ^ Natural History Museum. "Abbiatti, Delia (1918-) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  7. ^ Correa, Maevia Noemí (1955). "Argentinian orchids, Las orquídeas argentinas de la Tribu Polychondreae Schlechter: Subtribu Spiranthinae Pfitzer". Darwiniana. 11 (1): 24–88. ISSN 0011-6793. JSTOR 23211918.
  8. ^ Lorenzo, Chiara Di; Ceschi, Alessandro; Kupferschmidt, Hugo; Lüde, Saskia; Nascimento, Elizabeth De Souza; Santos, Ariana Dos; Colombo, Francesca; Frigerio, Gianfranco; Nørby, Karin; Plumb, Jenny; Finglas, Paul (April 2015). "Adverse effects of plant food supplements and botanical preparations: a systematic review with critical evaluation of causality". British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 79 (4): 578–592. doi:10.1111/bcp.12519. ISSN 1365-2125. PMC 4386943. PMID 25251944.
  9. ^ Landrum, Leslie R. (1999). "Revision of Berberis (Berberidaceae) in Chile and Adjacent Southern Argentina". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 86 (4): 793–834. doi:10.2307/2666170. JSTOR 2666170.
  10. ^ Zuloaga, Fernando O. (1994). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden. ISBN 0915279215. OCLC 30083456.
  11. ^ Bry, Charlene; Crosby, Marshall R.; Loewer, H. Peter (1989). A world of plants : the Missouri Botanical Garden. New York: Abrams. ISBN 0810917726. OCLC 19270680.
  12. ^ "International Plant Names Index". International Plant Names Index. 1984. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  13. ^ "Index of Botanists: Zardini, Elsa Matilde". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  14. ^ Zardini, Elsa M. (1991). Flora of the Guianas / Series A. Phanerogams. Fasc. 10, 98. Onagraceae. Königstein: Koeltz Scientific Books. ISBN 3874293270. OCLC 311339576.
  15. ^ Salomón, Luciana; Sklenář, Petr; Freire, Susana E. (2018-02-21). "Synopsis of Senecio series Culcitium (Asteraceae: Senecioneae, Senecioninae) in the Andean region of South America". Phytotaxa. 340 (1): 1–47. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.340.1.1. hdl:11336/97275. ISSN 1179-3163.
  16. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Zardini.