Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli

Italian botanist (1912–2005).

Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli (24 February 1912 – 22 April 2005) was an Italian botanist. The standard author abbreviation Pic.Serm. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. He was born in Florence, son of Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli and Maria née Del Rosso. He graduated in natural history from the University of Florence in 1935. He married Carla Bernardini on 9 April 1942, and they went on to have two children. He was assistant at the Institute of Botany in the University of Florence from 1935 to 1958, then became professor of botany at the University o