Caro Benigno Massalongo

Caro Benigno Massalongo (25 March 1852, Verona, Austrian Empire – 18 March 1928, Verona) was an Italian botanist who specialized in the field of liverworts.

He was the son of paleontologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo (1824-1860).

He studied botany at the University of Padua, receiving his PhD in 1873.

In 1878 he was named professor of botany at the University of Ferrara.

[2] He was among the first to conduct systematic and scientific studies of plant galls.