Elisa G. Nicora

Argentinian botanist

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Elisa Gernaela Juana Raquel Nicora de Panza (1912–2001) was an Argentinian botanist noted for her research on grasses, especially Malpighiaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Gramineae.^[1] She was a founding member of the Argentine Society of Botany, and was a curator at two herbaria. The standard author abbreviation Nicora is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] In the course of her career, she described over sixty species and gathered thousands of specimens.^[6]

References

^ Rúgolo de Agrasar, Z. E. (2001). "Obituarios: Elisa G. Nicora (1912–2001)" (PDF). Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica (in Spanish). 36 (1–2): 185–189. ISSN 0373-580X. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
^ International Plant Names Index. Nicora.
^ "Nicora, Elisa Gernaela Juana Raquel (1912–2001) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 7 March 2019. She became a researcher in botany at UBA before moving to the Darwinion Institute of Botany in San Isidro in 1941. Here she remained throughout the 1940s as an assistant botanist for the journal Darwiniana and focused her research on the groups Gallardoa (Malpighiaceae) and Scleranthus (Cariophyllaceae).
^ "Nicora de Panza, Elisa G. on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
^ Mabberley, D. J. (1997). The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants. Cambridge University Press. p. 841. ISBN 9780521414210.
^ "Tropicos | Person - Nicora, Elisa G." www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 7 March 2019.