António Rodrigo Pinto da Silva (1912 to 1992) was a Portuguese botanist and taxonomist who also worked in phytosociology, collaborating with Josias Braun-Blanquet and Pierre Dansereau. Born in Porto, he graduated in agricultural engineering at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia in Lisbon in 1937 and worked at the Estação Agronómica Nacional from 1937 to 1982, heading its phytosystematics and geobotany departments. He organized its herbarium, which grew from just over 3,000 to almost 100,000 entries, edited its Index Seminum and ran its seed exchange from 1939 to 1982. His studies described many new taxa, he was a pioneer of ethnobotany in Portugal, and he was one of the founders of the League for the Protection of Nature, which drew up the first lists of Portuguese botanical areas to protect.
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António Rodrigo Pinto da Silva (Porto, 13 March 1912, Lisbon, 28 September 1992), often referred to as A.R. Pinto da Silva or P. Silva, was a Portuguese botanist who distinguished himself as a taxonomist and phytosociologist
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António Rodrigo Pinto da Silva (Porto, 13 March 1912, Lisbon, 28 September 1992), often referred to as A.R. Pinto da Silva or P. Silva, was a Portuguese botanist who distinguished himself as a taxonomist and phytosociologist
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António Rodrigo Pinto da Silva (Porto, 13 March 1912, Lisbon, 28 September 1992), often referred to as A.R. Pinto da Silva or P. Silva, was a Portuguese botanist who distinguished himself as a taxonomist and phytosociologist
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was a Portuguese botanist who distinguished himself as a taxonomist and phytosociologist
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He edited the Index Seminum and organized the service of exchange and registration of seeds of that station from 1939 to 1982.
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He organized the herbarium of the National Agronomic Station, which under his action went from just over 3,000 to almost 100,000 entries.
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