Augusto Napoleone Berlese

Augusto Napoleone Berlese (21 October 1864, in Padua – 26 January 1903, in Milan) was an Italian botanist and mycologist.

He was the brother of entomologist Antonio Berlese 1863–1927, with whom he founded the journal Rivista di patologia vegetale in 1892.

[1] Together with Francesco Saccardo and Casimir Roumeguère he edited the exsiccata Fungi Lusitanici a Cl.

[2] He studied natural sciences at the University of Padua, where following graduation, he worked for several years as a botanical assistant (1885–1889).

[3] The mycological genus Berlesiella (family Herpotrichiellaceae) was named in his honor by Pier Andrea Saccardo.