Erbario di Rodolfo Chiosi | Rodolfo Chiosi's herbarium

Chiosi was an Italian soldier, anti-fascist and partisan, and commander of the ‘Mameli’ Partisan Brigade, which was active on the slopes of Pratomagno, in the Valdarno, during the Second World War. Although not a professional botanist, he became a great expert of plants and collaborated with various academic botanists; he is credited above all with an extensive floristic survey of the Valdarno area around Arezzo, particularly the territories of Montevarchi, San Giovanni and Cavriglia.

The herbarium is still managed as a separate close collection, despite planned to be finally incorporated in the general collection (FI-GEN), where many other Chiosi's specimens are already embedded.