José da Costa Sacco

José da Costa Sacco (born 1930) is a Brazilian botanist.

He was a professor at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas and is still living in Pelotas in Brazil. He specialised in the genus Passiflora and has named and published many species including Passiflora edmundoi. The Brazilian botanist Armando Carlos Cervi has named Passiflora saccoi after him.

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