| Carlo Allioni was a physician most known for his pioneering botanical study of the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, which culminated in his Flora Pedemontana (1755). This large, illustrated work listed 2813 plant species, 237 of which were previously unknown. After its publication, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in London. Allioni was a professor at the Universita di Torino (University of Turin) as well as the director of the university's botanical garden. Linnaeus named the genus Allionia, commonly known as windmills, after him. |
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