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, 1852

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, 1870

On Myrocarpus frondosus Allem. J. Linn. Soc. London 11(53):263-5, 1870

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)

Silver Medal, Moscow Botanical Garden (1868)

Vermeil Medal, Société Imperiale et Centrale d’Horticulture, France (1868)

Genus Melloa Bureau 1868 (Bignoniaceae)