Elsa Matilde Zardini
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Elsa Matilde Zardini (1949–2020) was an Argentine-Paraguayan botanist, teacher, curator, and explorer. She made botanical expeditions in the US, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. Three botanical taxon names were authored by Zardini. Her specialization was the flora of the Plata basin, with an emphasis on that of Paraguay.
Early life and education
In 1973 Zardini earned a master's degree in Science, and in 1974 a PhD, both at the National University of La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina.{{Cite web|url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000009521?saveItem=true&loggedin=true|title=Global Plants|last=Brumitt|first=R.K.|website=Natural History Museum|access-date=22 October 2019}}
Career
Zardini was one of the disciples of the Argentine botanist Ángel Lulio Cabrera{{Cite book|title=Flora of the Buenos Aires area / Flora de la provincia de buenos aires.|last=Spegazzini|first=Crios|publisher=Nabu Press|year=2010|isbn=978-1149375891|location=[Place of publication not identified]|oclc=945912034}} among them: Genoveva Dawson,{{Cite book|title=Applied Botany Botánica aplicada|last=Molina|first=José Antonio|year=2019|isbn=9788416898756|location=Madrid|oclc=1103679403 |publisher=Dextra}} Otto Solbrig,{{Cite book|title=So shall you reap : farming and crops in human affairs|last=Solbrig, Otto Thomas.|date=1994|publisher=Island Press|others=Solbrig, Dorothy J., 1945-|isbn=1559633085|location=Washington, D.C.|oclc=29428204}} Jorge Morello,{{Cite book|title=Ecological profile of South America /Perfil ecológico de Sudamérica|last=Morello|first=Jorge|publisher=Ediciones Cultura Hispánica, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana|others=Martínez, Jesús Manuel.|year=1984|isbn=8472323404|location=[Madrid]|oclc=13642551}} Humberto A. Fabris (1924–1976), Delia Abbiatti,{{Cite web|url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000363047|title=Abbiatti, Delia (1918-) on JSTOR|last=Natural History Museum|website=plants.jstor.org|access-date=27 October 2019}} Noemí Correa,{{Cite journal|last=Correa|first=Maevia Noemí|date=1955|title=Argentinian orchids, Las orquídeas argentinas de la Tribu Polychondreae Schlechter: Subtribu Spiranthinae Pfitzer|journal=Darwiniana|volume=11|issue=1|pages=24–88|issn=0011-6793|jstor=23211918}} Delia Añón Suárez,{{Cite journal|last1=Lorenzo|first1=Chiara Di|last2=Ceschi |first2=Alessandro|last3=Kupferschmidt|first3=Hugo|last4=Lüde|first4=Saskia|last5=Nascimento|first5=Elizabeth De Souza|last6=Santos|first6=Ariana Dos |last7=Colombo|first7=Francesca|last8=Frigerio|first8=Gianfranco|last9=Nørby|first9=Karin|last10=Plumb|first10=Jenny|last11=Finglas|first11=Paul|date=April 2015|title=Adverse effects of plant food supplements and botanical preparations: a systematic review with critical evaluation of causality|journal=British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology |volume=79|issue=4|pages=578–592|doi=10.1111/bcp.12519|issn=1365-2125|pmc=4386943|pmid=25251944}} Cristina Orsi,{{Cite journal|last=Landrum|first=Leslie R.|date=1999|title=Revision of Berberis (Berberidaceae) in Chile and Adjacent Southern Argentina|journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden|volume=86|issue=4|pages=793–834|doi=10.2307/2666170|jstor=2666170|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/28629 }} Amelia Torres, Aída Pontiroli, Jorge Crisci, Roberto Kiesling and Fernando Zuloaga.{{Cite book|title=Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina|date=1994|publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden|author=Zuloaga, Fernando O.|isbn=0915279215|location= St. Louis |oclc=30083456}} In 2011 she became associate curator of the Missouri Botanical Garden.{{Cite book|title=A world of plants : the Missouri Botanical Garden |author1=Bry, Charlene |date=1989|publisher=Abrams |author2=Crosby, Marshall R. |author3=Loewer, H. Peter |isbn=0810917726|location=New York|oclc=19270680|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/worldofplantsmis0000bryc}} Spermatophytes was an area of interest for her.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipni.org/a/11993-1|title=International Plant Names Index|date=1984|website=International Plant Names Index|access-date=27 October 2019}}
= Publications =
Flora of the Guianas Onagraceae. . Zardini, Elsa M,j. Jansen-Jacobs, peter h. Raven. 1991.e. Vol. 10. Ed. Koeltz{{Cite book|title=Flora of the Guianas / Series A. Phanerogams. Fasc. 10, 98. Onagraceae.|date=1991|publisher=Koeltz Scientific Books|author=Zardini, Elsa M.|isbn=3874293270|location=Königstein|oclc=311339576}}{{Cite journal|last1=Salomón|first1=Luciana|last2=Sklenář|first2=Petr|last3=Freire|first3=Susana E.|date=2018-02-21|title=Synopsis of Senecio series Culcitium (Asteraceae: Senecioneae, Senecioninae) in the Andean region of South America|journal=Phytotaxa|language=en|volume=340|issue=1|pages=1–47|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.340.1.1|issn=1179-3163|hdl=11336/97275|hdl-access=free}}
American Cucurbitaceae useful to man: Whitaker, Thomas of the United States Department of Agriculture, Zardini, E.M. La Plata, October 7 to 14, 1980. Ed. Province of Buenos Aires Commission of Investigations Scientists,
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= Plants named by Zardini =
Zardini named the plant taxa Lulia, Lulia nervosa, and Trichocline deserticola.
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