Carlos de Toledo Rizzini, Brazilian botanist and lichenologist (Monteiro Lobato, São Paulo State 18 April 1921 – 03 October 1992)

Authored with W.B. Mors & N.A. Pereira, Medicinal Plants of Brazil (2000), with international repercussion

Authored with W.B. Mors Useful Brazilian plants (1966) translated into English and German 

Proposed a preparation method of pollen grains for mounting

Estudos sobre as Acanthaceae. Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, Bot. 8:1-38, 1947 

Performed extensive studies about underground plant organs

With E.P. Heringer. Estudo sobre os sistemas subterrâneos difusos de plantas campestres. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 38:85-112, 1966

With E.P. Heringer. Studies on the underground organs of trees and shrubs from Southern Brazilian savannas. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 34(2):235-47, 1962

With E.P. Heringer. Underground organs of plants from some Southern Brazilian savannas, with special reference to the Xylopodium. Phyton 17(1):105-24, 1961

DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA

Valid Genera

Apterokarpos 1975

Arapatiella 1975 with Mattos

Ixocactus 1953

Liberatia 1947

Morsacanthus 1952

Pupilla 1949

Species

About 340 

Lichenes

Taxa

Cudoniella brasiliensis 1953

Usnea elongata f. soredifera 1952

Usnea ludicra 1952