Salvador Rizo

Salvador Rizo Blanco (Santa Cruz de Mompox, Viceroyalty of New Granada, ca.

Salvador Rizo was employee as draftsman with an engineer of roads when met to José Celestino Mutis in Bogotá in 1784.

[1][2][3] Salvador Rizo assumed the leadership of the expedition to the death of Mutis in 1808, but resigned in 1811 due to conflicts with other members of it.

Rizo decided to enlist in the ranks of the patriot army and was executed during the repression by the Spanish.

[1][3] Science has honored his name giving him a genus of plants called "Rizoa".

Mutisia clematis painted by Salvador Rizo during the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada