Agostino Todaro (14 January 1818 – 18 April 1892) was an Italian botanist.

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Agostino Todaro
Bust of Todaro in the Orto botanico di Palermo
Born	(1818-01-14)14 January 1818 Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Died	18 April 1892(1892-04-18) (aged 74) Palermo, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Author abbrev. (botany)	Tod.

He was born and died in Palermo, Italy. He was a professor of botany and became the director of the botanical gardens in Palermo. He published the Hortus Botanicus Panormitanus in 1876–1878.

In 1843, botanist Filippo Parlatore published Todaroa, which is a genus of flowering plants from the Canary Islands, belonging to the family Apiaceae. It just contains one known species, Todaroa aurea (Aiton) Parl., and it is named after Agostino Todaro.[1]

The standard botanical author abbreviation Tod. is applied to species he described.

Main works

• Orchideae siculae sive enumeratio orchidearum in Sicilia hucusque detectarum, Ex Empedoclea Officina, Panormi 1842 (in Italian)
• Rapporto della Commissione per l'imboschimento e censuazione di Monte Pellegrino, con G. Schiro, Lima, Palermo 1851. (in Italian)
• Nuovi generi e nuove specie di piante coltivate nel Real Orto Botanico di Palermo, Pagando e Piola, Palermo 1858 (in Italian)
• Relazione sui cotoni coltivati al r. Orto botanico nell'anno 1864, Lorsnaider, Palermo 1864. (in Italian)
• Synopsis plantarum acotyledonearum vascularium sponte provenientium in Sicilia insulisque adjacentibus, Lao, Palermo 1866. (in Italian)
• Relazione sui cotoni coltivati nel r. Orto botanico di Palermo nell'anno 1876, Lao, Palermo 1877. (in Italian)
• Relazione sulla cultura dei cotoni in Italia, seguita da una monografia del genere Gossypium, Stamp. Reale, Palermo 1878. (in Italian)
• Sopra una nuova specie di Fourcroya, Lao, Palermo 1879. (in Italian)

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• Scheda sul sito del Senato (in Italian)
• Scheda sul sito del Comune di Palermo (in Italian)
• Scheda autorità del «Sistema Bibliotecario Nazionale»^{[permanent dead link]} (in Italian)

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[ru] Тодаро, Агостино