Biography

Florentino Silvestre Felippone Bentos, Uruguayan physician and naturalist (Paysandu 20 June 1852 – Paysandu 24 July 1939)

DESCRIBED TAXA

Plantae (with Beauverd 1922)

Echium plantagineum var. monodasystemon

Mollugo verticillata var. subsessile

Oxalis articulata var. nodulosa

Oxalis sellowiana var. caulescens

Polygala linoides var. ambigua

Richardsonia brasiliensis var. dubia

Mollusca

Odontostomus demedinae 1938 with Barattini 

HONORS

Felipponea Brotherus 1912 (Musci)

Felipponea Dall 1919 (Mollusca Gastropoda)