Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi

{{Short description|Argentine botanist (1895–1966)}}

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Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (23 January 1895 in Pergamino, Buenos Aires Province – 21 April 1966 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine botanist and agronomist.{{cite web |title=Academia Nacional de Ciencias - Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi |url=https://www.anc-argentina.org.ar/es/institucional/academicos/todos-nuestros-academicos/lorenzo-raimundo-parodi/ |publisher=National Academy of Sciences of Argentina |access-date=24 July 2021 |language=es}}

Parodi studied at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Agronomy under Lucien Leon Hauman and in 1926 took Hauman's place as professor of botany.{{cite journal |last1=Arturo Burkart |title=The Argentine Botanist Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (1895-1966) |journal=Taxon |date=1967 |volume=16 |issue=5 |pages=522–533 |doi=10.1002/j.1996-8175.1967.tb02130.x |jstor=1216959 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1216959 |access-date=24 July 2021 |issn=0040-0262 |author1-link=Arturo Burkart }}

Several plant genera, have been named in his honour; in 1929, Parodiodoxa, a genus of flowering plants from Argentina, belonging to the family Brassicaceae,{{cite web |title=Parodiodoxa O.E.Schulz {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:297004-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=24 May 2021 |language=en}} then in 1941, Parodianthus, a genus of flowering plants from Argentina belonging to the family Verbenaceae.{{cite web |title=Parodianthus Tronc. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:296897-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 May 2021 |language=en}} Followed by in 1969, Parodiodendron, a genus under the family Picrodendraceae,Hunziker, Armando Theodoro. 1969. Kurtziana 5: 331[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40002001 Tropicos, Parodiodendron Hunz.] and lastly in 2008, Parodiophyllochloa is a genus of Latin American plants in the grass family.Morrone, O., S. S. Denham, S. S. Aliscioni & F. O. Zuloaga. 2008. Parodiophyllochloa, a new genus segregated from Panicum (Paniceae, Poaceae) based on morphological and molecular data. Systematic Botany 33(1): 66–76.