Gilberto Morillo

Gilberto N. Morillo (born 1944) is a Venezuelan scientist, author, and educator.

In 1995 he was chosen as an elected curator of Herbario Forestal (MER) of the University of the Andes in Mérida, Venezuela.

Morillo had already been a curator of the Faculty of Pharmacy (MERF) from the same university and the National Herbarium of Venezuela in Caracas.

He is currently a researcher with the highest number of scientific publications of the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental and global specialist in Asclepiadaceae and a consultant for prestigious journals in the field of botany.

As of October 2023 Morillo has published 514 names of plant taxa, include the genera Atrostemma, Bruceholstia, Chloropetalum, Graciemoriana, Metoxypetalum, Orinoquia, Pruskortizia, Pseudolachnostoma, Rhytidostemma, Riparoampelos, Rotundanthus, Suberogerens, and Vulcanoa, and hundreds of species including Orinoquia yanomamica.