# Sandro Pignatti

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Italian botanist (1930–2025)

**Alessandro** "**Sandro**" **Pignatti** (28 September 1930 – 13 June 2025) was an Italian [botanist](/source/Botany) specialising in [pteridophytes](/source/Pteridophyte) and [spermatophytes](/source/Spermatophyte).[1] The Australian plant species *[Calectasia pignattiana](/source/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](/source/Uppsala_University), Sweden.[2] He was an Honorary Member of the [International Association for Vegetation Science](/source/International_Association_for_Vegetation_Science) (1997).[3]

The [specific epithet](/source/Binomial_nomenclature) of the Western Australian plant species, *[Calectasia pignattiana](/source/Calectasia_pignattiana)* honoured "Professors Erika and Alessandro Pignatti of Rome on the occasion of their seventieth birthdays".[4]

Pignatti died on 13 June 2025, at the age of 94.[5]

The standard [author abbreviation](/source/List_of_botanists_by_author_abbreviation_(A)) Pignatti is used to indicate this person as the author when [citing](/source/Author_citation_(botany)) a [botanical name](/source/Botanical_name).[6]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Author Details"](http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do;jsessionid=268FB1A0DB7FB2BA07C31299C9DDE065?id=7694-1&back_page=). The International Plant Name Index. Retrieved 14 December 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden"](http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/traditions/prizes/honorary-doctorates/).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["IAVS - Honorary Members"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160602003754/http://iavs.org:80/Awards/Honorary-Members.aspx). Archived from [the original](http://iavs.org/Awards/Honorary-Members.aspx) on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Nuytsia_4-0)** Barrett, Russell L.; Dixon, Kingsley W. (2001). ["A Revision of the Genus *Calectasia* (Calectasiaceae) with eight new species describe from south-west Western Australia"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/225810#page/42/mode/1up). *Nuytsia*. **13** (3): 446. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.58828/nuy00346](https://doi.org/10.58828%2Fnuy00346). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [257678685](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:257678685). Retrieved 12 October 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Cordoglio per la scomparsa di Alessandro Pignatti | Sapienza Università di Roma"](https://www.uniroma1.it/it/notizia/cordoglio-la-scomparsa-di-alessandro-pignatti). *www.uniroma1.it*. Retrieved 15 June 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [International Plant Names Index](/source/International_Plant_Names_Index). [*Pignatti*](https://www.ipni.org/search?q=author%20std%3APignatti).

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