Antônio Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso

{{Short description|Brazilian botanist (1788–1848)}}

António Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso (1788–1848) was a Brazilian botanist, physician, and politician.Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro -1919 - Page 88 "O cirurgião António Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso, de 60 annos, assassinado a 18 de janeiro de 18-18, natural de Itú, casado com d. Anna Brandina da Silva Manso, recom- mendado solemnemente, jáz no cemeterio, envolto no habito de S."

Silva Manso was born in Campinas, Brazil.{{cite web|url=http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000007827|title=Silva Manso, António Luiz Patricio da (1788-1848)|publisher=JSTOR|accessdate=September 22, 2013}} Silva Manso was an expert on spermatophytes{{cite web|url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=1919|publisher=Harvard University Herbarium|title=Index of Botanists: Silva Manso, Antonio Luiz Patricio da|accessdate=September 22, 2013}} and the first person to classify the genus Cayaponia and the species Cayaponia espelina. He named the genus Cayaponia after the indigenous Cayapo people of Brazil.{{cite web|title=Cayaponia |url=http://www.neiu.edu/~wacliffo/The%20Botany/C.pdf |publisher=Northeastern Illinois University |accessdate=September 22, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304024447/http://www.neiu.edu/~wacliffo/The%20Botany/C.pdf |archivedate=March 4, 2012 }} A genus of climbing shrubs, Mansoa, is named after him.{{cite book|last1=Lindley|first1=John|last2=Moore|first2=Thomas|page=718|title=The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom, Part 2 L-Z|year=1876|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|location=London}} He began work as a painter, as his father was a painter. He began studying botany in 1819 and became a licensed physician in 1820. He was also a member of the Brazilian General Assembly from 1834 to 1837.

He became involved in the Brazilian struggle for independence, which led to his murder in January 1848.{{cite book|title=Botanical Abstracts|publisher=Williams and Wilkins Company|location=Baltimore, MD|year=1922|page=68|volume=X}}

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