Sandro Pignatti

{{Short description|Italian botanist (1930–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} '''Alessandro''' "'''Sandro'''" '''Pignatti''' (28 September 1930 – 13 June 2025) was an Italian [[Botany|botanist]] specialising in [[pteridophyte]]s and [[spermatophyte]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do;jsessionid=268FB1A0DB7FB2BA07C31299C9DDE065?id=7694-1&back_page=|title=Author Details|publisher=The International Plant Name Index|accessdate=14 December 2011}}</ref> The Australian plant species ''[[Calectasia pignattiana]]'' was named after him. On 31 May 1991, Pignatti received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at [[Uppsala University]], Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/traditions/prizes/honorary-doctorates/|title = Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden}}</ref> He was an Honorary Member of the [[International Association for Vegetation Science]] (1997).<ref>{{Cite web | title=IAVS - Honorary Members | url=http://iavs.org/Awards/Honorary-Members.aspx | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602003754/http://iavs.org:80/Awards/Honorary-Members.aspx | access-date=27 March 2025 | archive-date=2 June 2016}}</ref>

The [[Binomial nomenclature|specific epithet]] of the Western Australian plant species, ''[[Calectasia pignattiana]]'' honoured "Professors Erika and Alessandro Pignatti of Rome on the occasion of their seventieth birthdays".<ref name="Nuytsia">{{cite journal |last1=Barrett |first1=Russell L. |last2=Dixon |first2=Kingsley W. |title=A Revision of the Genus ''Calectasia'' (Calectasiaceae) with eight new species describe from south-west Western Australia |journal=Nuytsia |date=2001 |volume=13 |issue=3 |page=446 |doi=10.58828/nuy00346 |s2cid=257678685 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/225810#page/42/mode/1up |accessdate=12 October 2020}}</ref>

Pignatti died on 13 June 2025, at the age of 94.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cordoglio per la scomparsa di Alessandro Pignatti {{!}} Sapienza Università di Roma |url=https://www.uniroma1.it/it/notizia/cordoglio-la-scomparsa-di-alessandro-pignatti |access-date=15 June 2025 |website=www.uniroma1.it}}</ref>

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