Alexander Gilli

{{Expand Spanish|topic=bio|Alexander Gilli|date=January 2021}} '''Alexander Gilli''' (29 April 1904 - 16 May 2007) was an Austrian botanist and pteridologist.<ref>[http://www.genres.de/CF/ipgri_cwr/demo/authors.cfm?searchVal=G Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food]{{dead link|url=http://www.genres.de/CF/ipgri_cwr/demo/authors.cfm?searchVal=G|bot=InternetArchiveBot|date=March 2019}}</ref> He was a pioneer in research on plant communities.

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== Some publications == * 1968. ''Afghanische Pflanzengesellschaften''. Vegetatio 16 (5/6): 307—375 doi 10.1007/BF00257022 * 1979. ''Beiträge zur Flora von Papua-New Guinea, II. Dicotyledones''. Ann. des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 83: 417—474

==Honors== *Corresponding member of the "Naturhistorisches Museum"<ref>1983 ''Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien: Für Botanik und Zoologie'', Volumen 84</ref>

=== Eponyms === Several species are named after Gilli, including: * (Alliaceae) ''Allium gillii'' <small>Wendelbo</small><ref>K. Danske Vid. Selsk., Biol. Skrift. x. No. 3 (Symb. Afghan. IV) 176 1959 (IK)</ref> * (Plumbaginaceae) ''Acantholimon gillii'' <small>Rech.f. & Koeie</small><ref>K. Danske Vid. Selsk. Biol. Skrift. xiii. No. 4 (Symb. Afghan. v) 162 1963 (IK)</ref>

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