Alessandro Rapini (born 1965), Brazilian botanist.

IPNI standard form: Rapini

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 9 taxon names authored by Alessandro Rapini

Publications

• Liede-Schumann, S., Rapini, A., Goyder, D.J. & Chase, M.W. 2005. Phylogenetics of the new world subtribes of Asclepiadeae (Apocynaceae - Asclepiadoideae): Metastelmatinae, Oxypetalinae, and Gonolobinae. Systematic Botany 30(1): 184–195. DOI: 10.1600/0363644053661832 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Andrade, M.J.G. de, Giulietti, A.M., Rapini, A., Queiroz, L.P. de, Conceição, A.de S., Almeida, P.R.M. & van den Berg, C. 2010. A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of Eriocaulaceae: Evidence from nuclear (ITS) and plastid (psbA-trnH and trnL-F) DNA sequences. Taxon 59(2): 379–388. DOI: 10.1002/tax.592004 JSTOR Reference page. 
• Côrtes, A.L.A., Borges, R.L.B. de & Rapini, A. 2010. Reinstatement of Thyrsacanthus Moric. (Acanthaceae) and taxonomic novelties in the genus. Taxon 59(3): 965–972. DOI: 10.1002/tax.593025 JSTOR Reference page. 
• Rapini, A., Pereira, J.F. & Goyder, D.J. 2011. Towards a stable generic circumscription in Oxypetalinae (Apocynaceae). Phytotaxa 26(1): 9–16. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.26.1.2 PDF Reference page. 
• Espírito Santo, F., Silva, M.M. & Rapini, A. 2012. Handroanthus grandiflorus (Bignoniaceae), a new species from the semiarid region of Brazil. Phytotaxa 48: 1–6. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.48.1.1 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Soares e Silva, U.C., Rapini, A., Liede-Schumann, S., Ribeiro, P.L. & van den Berg, C. 2012. Taxonomic considerations on Metastelmatinae (Apocynaceae) based on plastid and nuclear DNA. Systematic Botany 37(3): 795-806. DOI: 10.1600/036364412X648733 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Gregório, B., Jacques, E.L., Costa, J.A.S. & Rapini, A. 2014. Begonia obdeltata (Begoniaceae), a new species from northeast Brazil. Phytotaxa 167(2): 189–194. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.167.2.5 Reference page. 
• Rocha, L., Arbo, M.M., Souza, I. M. & Rapini, A. 2014. Piriqueta crenata, a new species of Turneraceae (Passifloraceae s.l.) from the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 159(2): 105–110. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.159.2.4 Reference page. 
• Espírito Santo, F.S., Rapini, A., Ribeiro, P.L., Liede-Schumann, S., Goyder, D.J. & Fontella-Pereira, J. 2019. Phylogeny of the tribe Marsdenieae (Apocynaceae), reinstatement of Ruehssia and the taxonomic treatment of the genus in Brazil. Kew Bulletin 74(2)-30: 1–79. DOI: 10.1007/s12225-019-9807-4 Reference page.