António Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso (1788–1848) was a Brazilian botanist, physician, and politician.
[1] Silva Manso was born in Campinas, Brazil.
He named the genus Cayaponia after the indigenous Cayapo people of Brazil.
He began studying botany in 1819 and became a licensed physician in 1820.
He became involved in the Brazilian struggle for independence, which led to his murder in January 1848.