Agostino Todaro
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Agostino Todaro (14 January 1818 – 18 April 1892) was an Italian botanist.He was born and died in Palermo, Italy. He was a professor of botany and became the director of the botanical gardens in Palermo. He published the ''Hortus Botanicus Panormitanus'' in 1876–1878.
In 1843, botanist Filippo Parlatore published ''Todaroa'', which is a genus of flowering plants from the Canary Islands, belonging to the family Apiaceae. It just contains one known species, ''Todaroa aurea'' , and it is named after Agostino Todaro.
The standard botanical author abbreviation Tod. is applied to species he described. Provided by Wikipedia
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