Carlo Allioni (23 September 1728 in
Turin – 30 July 1804 in Turin) was an
Italian physician and
professor of botany at the
University of Turin. His most important work was
Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii 1755, a study of the plant world in
Piedmont, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown. In 1766, he published the
Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium.