Emilio Chiovenda was an Italian

Italy

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 botanist.
He collected in Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

, Eritrea

Eritrea

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 and Ethiopia

Ethiopia

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, especially the he Ruwenzori Mountains, from 1893 to 1909.
He frequently collaborated with Pietro Romualdo Pirotta for the Flora of Cologne Eritrea; he was also associated with many other institutions.

His principal collections remain in Bologna with about 20,000 samples.

Selected publications

• Flora della Colonia Eritrea 1903 (in collaboration with Romualdo Pirotta)
• Flora delle Alpi Lepontine occidentali (1904-1935)
• Flora somala Roma, Sindacato italiano arti grafiche, 1929
• Pteridophyta Catania, Tip. Giandolfo, 1929
• Il papiro in Italia : un interessante problema di biologia, sistematica e fitogeografia Forli, Tip. Valbonesi, 1931

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