Alberto Cavaco

Alberto Júdice Leote Cavaco was a Portuguese botanist.

Career

After completing his studies at the University of Coimbra, Cavaco worked as an assistant to António Rocha da Torre in Mozambique during the Botanical Mission of Mozambique, led by Francisco Mendonça. The Willdenowia expedition lasted seven months, with the team divided into smaller groups. Torre and Cavaco conducted research in the Save River region, collecting over 1,080 specimens under Torre's name.
Cavaco later worked at the Laboratoire Arago in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, and subsequently earned a doctorate at the University of Montpellier. He became a research master at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, where he established and developed various scientific activities.
Until the late 1970s, he collaborated with the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon and was involved with the Portuguese Society of Natural Sciences. He is honored in two plant names: the genus Cavacoa J. Léonard and Schizolaena cavacoana Lowry & al..