Biography
Joaquim Correa de Mello, Brazilian botanist (São Paulo 10 April 1816 – São Paulo 20 December 1877)
DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA
Genera
Balfourodendron 1877
Pithecoxanium
Species
Hanburyophyton splendens 1868
Jacaranda lilacina
Pithecoxanium bidentatum
Pithecoxanium riparium
Pithecoxanium trichiadenum
Tynanthus micranthus
Zeyheria hanburiana
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bignoniaceas paulistanas. Arq. Mus. Paran. 9:1-206, 1952
Observations on Alibertia with description of a new species of that genus. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 28(4):519-22, 1873
Notes on some Brazilian plants from the neighbourhood of Campinas. J. Linn. Soc. London 11:253-63, 1871
With R. Spruce. Notes on the Papayaceae. J. Linn. Soc. Botany 10:1-18, 1869
HONORS
Foreign Member, Royal Society of Botany, Edinburgh (1869)
Honorary Member, British Pharmaceutical Conference (1870)
Genus Melloa Bureau 1868 (Bignoniaceae)