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Salvatore Brullo

Italian botanist

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Source revisionSep 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ957019 ↗
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Salvatore Brullo (born 23 February 1947, Modica, Italy) is professor at University of Catania since 1980 teaching Systematic Botany, he obtained a degree in natural science in July 1970. For six years he was Director of the Department of Botany, at the University of Catania.

He has described numerous Sicilian endemics, including Allium franciniae, Allium lopadusanum, Campanula marcenoi, Chiliadenus bocconei, Desmazeria pignattii, Genista demarcoi, Helichrysum hyblaeum, Helichrysum melitense, Hyoseris frutescens, Limonium aegusae, Limonium lojaconoi, Limonium lopadusanum, Limonium lylibeum, Scilla dimartinoi, Silene hicesiae, Valantia calva.

See also

Category:Taxa named by Salvatore Brullo

Books

1970. Vegetazione psammofila presso il Capo Isola delle Correnti, Sicilia sud-orientale. Catania

1971. Vegetazione dei pantani litoranei della Sicilia sud-orientale e problema della conservazione dell'ambiente. Catania

salvatore Brullo, maria Grillo, maria carmen Terrasi. 1976. Ricerche fitosociologiche sui pascoli di Monte Lauro (Sicilia meridionale).

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This entry incorporates text from “Salvatore Brullo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.