Carlo Luigi Giuseppe Bertero


Luigi Carlo Giuseppe Bertero was an Italian physicist, physician, naturalist, botanist, bryologist and pteridologist. He explored the West Indies between 1816 and 1821 coinciding with the Venezuelan scientist and later president, José María Vargas in Puerto Rico although there is no evidence of any exchange between them. During his two voyages, February 1828 to September 1830 and between March and May 1830, he collected and described the flora of Chile. He also examined plants native to the Pacific island of Juan Fernandez, as well as Guadeloupe, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Colombia. He is presumed lost in a shipwreck while sailing from Tahiti to Chile.

Eponyms

The American teacher, ornithologist and botanist Ralph Hoffman named a cactus, Opuntia berteri, after Bertero.
The genus Berteroa is named after Carlo Berteroa Bertero.
Genera:
.. The following lichens are named in honor of Bertero:
Biatora berteroana Mont.
Brigantiaea berteroana Trevis.
Pseudocyphellaria berteroana Redon
Sticta berteroana Mont.
Lecidea berteroana Nyl.