Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli (24 February 1912 – 22 April 2005) was an Italian botanist.
[1] He was born in Florence, son of Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli and Maria née Del Rosso.
He married Carla Bernardini on 9 April 1942, and they went on to have two children.
From 1959 he was professor at the Institute of Botany in the University of Genoa and director of the Botanical Garden.
He was a specialist on the ecology and phytogeography of tropical Africa, and also worked in plant taxonomy and pteridology.