Biography

Horacio Raul Descole Torres, Argentine botanist (Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province 06 February 1910 – Tucumán Province 16 February 1984)

DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA

Sections (Calceolariaceae)

Phyllophorus 1954 with Borsini

Rosula 1954 with Borsini

Species

Alternanthera tucumana 1939 with Lillo, O’Donell & Lourteig

Angelonia evitae 1950 with Borsini

Calceolaria lilloi 1955 with Borsini

Calceolaria pennelli 1955 with Borsini

Calceolaria ruizlealii 1954 with Borsini

Calceolaria ruiz-pavoni 1954 with Borsini

Calceolaria tucumana 1942

Euphrasia piossekii 1955 with Borsini 

Hoffmannia australis 1939 with Lillo, O’Donell & Lourteig

Kallstroemia tucumanensis 1939 with O’Donell & Lourteig

Plectocarpa rougesii 1939 with O’Donell & Lourteig

Schubertia schreiteri 1941 with Meyer

Trechonaetes rotacea 1939 with Lillo, O’Donell & Lourteig

HONORS

Descolea Singer 1952 (Fungi)

Descoleia Aczel 1956 (Diptera)

Mesodescolea Archangelsky 1963 (Fossil Plantae)

See WWW.archivo.unt.edu.ar/attachments/059_brito.pdf  (in Spanish)