Gaetano Savi

Gaetano Savi (13 June 1769 – 28 April 1844) was an Italian naturalist.,[1] botanist and mycologist.

He was born in Florence and studied with Giorgio Santi (1746–1822) and Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti (1823–1902).

He taught physics and botany at the University of Pisa and directed the botanical garden there from 1814.

He was honoured in 1808, when botanist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque published Savia Raf., this genus is now a synonym of Amphicarpaea (in the Fabaceae family).

[2] Then in 2008, Ignaz Urban and Petra Hoffmann published Heterosavia which is a genus of the family of Phyllanthaceae.