Leonardo Versieux

Leonardo M. Versieux: (Sabará, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 27/June/1979). BSc in Botany (Federal University of Minas Gerais), MSc (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and PhD (University of São Paulo). Professor of Botany in the Departamento de Botânica e Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil and Research Associate at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, U.S.A.

He is a bromeliad taxonomist who has published about 100 scientific papers, 5 books, mostly on bromeliads and teaches regular courses on systematic botany and botany applied to landscape design. Life member of the Bromeliad Society International.