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Alphonse Maille

Alphonse Maille

French botanist

Alphonse Maille (1813, Rouen – 30 September 1865, Paris) was a French botanist.

In Paris, he studied botany under Adrien-Henri de Jussieu and worked on exsiccatae with Timothée Puel.[1] In 1854 he was a founding member of the Société botanique de France.[2]

During his career he assembled an important herbarium of approximately 1000 packages that contained about 60,000 species.[1] After his death, botanist Jean-Louis Kralik published a catalog of Maille's collections as "Catalogue Des Reliquiae Mailleanae" (1869).[3]

In 1842 the grass genus Maillea (synonym Phleum, family Poaceae) was named in his honor by Filippo Parlatore.[4][5]

The standard author abbreviation Maille is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Google Books Catalogue des Reliquiae Mailleanae by Jean Louis Kralik, J. Billon
  2. [2]
    Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
  3. [3]
    JSTOR Global Plants Biography of Kralik, Jean-Louis (1813-1892).
  4. [4]
    BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  5. [5]
    GRIN Taxonomy for Plants Archived 2012-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Maillea, Parl.
  6. [6]
    International Plant Names Index.  Maille.
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