Armando Dugand Gnecco, Colombian geobotanist and ornithologist (Barranquilla 23 July 1906 – Barranquilla 05 December 1971)

From French father

Authored 109 papers on botany and 29 papers on ornithology

DESCRIBED TAXA

Plants

Valid Genera

Pseudobombax 1943 (Bombacaceae)

Romeroa 1952 (Bignoniaceae)

Saritaea 1945 (Bignoniaceae) in honor to his wife Sara Roncallo

Uribea 1962 with Romero (Fabaceae)

Species

165 species

Aves

Subspecies

Aratinga  pertinax lehmanni 1943

Colinus cristatus bogotensis 1943

HONORS

Research Fellow, Harvard University (1942)