Hermógenes de Freitas Leitão Filho, Brazilian botanist (Campinas, São Paulo State 06 February 1944 – Campinas, São Paulo State 23 February 1996)

Authored 111 papers, 8 books and 11 book chapters

Studied angiosperm taxonomy and phytosociology of forests and savannahs of Southeastern Brazil

With S. Miyasaka & L.D. Almeida. Característica do feijão carioca, um novo cultivar. Bragantia 30:33-8, 1971 

DESCRIBED NEW PLANT SPECIES   

Actinoseris revolutae 1981 (Asteraceae)

Gossypium caicoense 1969 with Aranha & Gridi-Papp

Lamanonia brasiliensis 1993 with Zickel (Cunoniaceae)

Stifftia grazielae 1970 (Asteraceae) 

HONORS

Hermogenodendron Santin 1991 (Anarcadiaceae)