1. Odoardo Beccari was an Italian botanist famous for his discoveries in Indonesia, New Guinea, and Australia.
23 Facts About Odoardo Beccari
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Odoardo Beccari has been called the greatest botanist to ever study Malesia.
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Odoardo Beccari was born in Florence as the third child of Giuseppe di Luigi Beccari and the first child of Antonietta Minucci.
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Odoardo Beccari later named the genus Mezzettia in his honor.
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Odoardo Beccari departed from Southampton on 4 April 1865, meeting Doria in Suez.
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Odoardo Beccari discovered a new species of Rafflesia, the largest-flowered plant genus, which he called Rafflesia tuan-mudae in honor of James Brooke.
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Odoardo Beccari contracted Malaria and Elephantiasis and had to leave in January 1868, arriving in Italy on 2 March.
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Odoardo Beccari published his results in Bolletino della Societa Geografica Italiana.
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On 26 November 1871 Odoardo Beccari departed on a voyage to New Guinea, then hardly explored, together with the ornithologist Luigi D'Albertis.
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In total, Odoardo Beccari had collected about 700 plant species during his voyage to New Guinea.
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Odoardo Beccari then continued to Sulawesi, traveling around the island and reaching Makassar on 15 August 1874.
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Odoardo Beccari's funds were running out at that time, but after he had written earlier in the year to Doria in Genoa asking for help in acquiring funding, his friend convinced the city council of Genoa to finance a second expedition towards New Guinea.
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Odoardo Beccari visited many parts of northern West Papua, such as the Schouten Islands, Dorei and Seram.
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Odoardo Beccari climbed one of the summits of Mount Arfak.
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From November 1875 to January 1876, Odoardo Beccari accompanied a Dutch bathymetric survey, which allowed him to visit places as far as the Yos Sudarso Bay.
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Odoardo Beccari left Ternate for Jakarta in March 1876 and arrived in Florence in June, where he received many honors.
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Enrico d'Albertis then returned directly while Odoardo Beccari made botanical studies in West Sumatra, especially around Mount Singgalang, where he amassed a collection of about 1,000 species.
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Between 1878 and 1879, Odoardo Beccari was Director of the Botanical Collections and Garden of the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History of Florence.
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Odoardo Beccari resigned after one year due to disagreements about the source of financing for the sale of his plant collection and the removal of the large existing collections to a new building.
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Odoardo Beccari began to publish a large work, Malesia, mainly detailing results from the study of his collection, but the publication was stopped after some volumes due to lack of funds.
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For example, Odoardo Beccari first discovered and described Trachycarpus takil, the Kumaon windmill palm.
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Odoardo Beccari originally mistook it for a known T fortunei variant, thus missed having it named after him.
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Odoardo Beccari died on 25 October 1920 in Florence, aged 77.