Erbario di Rodolfo Chiosi

Rodolfo Chiosi’s (1906–1993) personal herbarium is the result of more than 50 years of research and study, beginning in the 1930s, and serves as an important complementary resource to his numerous publications. Chiosi was an Italian soldier, anti-fascist and partisan, and commander of the ‘Mameli’ Partisan Brigade, which was active on the slopes of Pratomagno, in the Valdarno, during the Second World War. Although not a professional botanist, he became a great expert of plants and collaborated with various academic botanists; he is credited above all with an extensive floristic survey of the Valdarno area around Arezzo, particularly the territories of Montevarchi, San Giovanni and Cavriglia. The herbarium is still managed as a separate close collection, despite planned to be finally incorporated in the general collection (FI-GEN), where many other Chiosi's specimens are already embedded.

DOI 10.15468/pe7q75CC BY-NC 4.0