Harri Lorenzi

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Harri Lorenzi
Born1949 (age 7576)
Alma mater Federal University of Paraná
University of Tennessee
Notable workBrazilian Trees
Scientific career
Fields agronomy

Harri Lorenzi (born 1949) is a Brazilian agronomic engineer and writer on trees of the Atlantic Mata. He is a collaborating agronomist of the garden of Fazenda Cresciumal, Ruy De Souza Queiroz. He published four books in the late 1990s: Brazilian palms, Brazilian Trees (both also published in English), [1] Tropical Plants of Burle Marx and Brazilian Ornamental Plants.

In 2012 botanist E. G. Gonç. named Lorenzia , a genus of plants in the family Araceae, after him. [2]

References

  1. Cannon II, Bob G. "Book Review: Brazilian Trees". quisqualis.com. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
  2. Eduardo G. Gonçalves (2012). "Lorenzia (Araceae — Spathicarpeae): a new genus from Northern Brazil supported by matK sequence data". Systematic Botany . 37 (1): 48–52. doi:10.1600/036364412X616620. S2CID   84134456.