Alphonse Maille
Alphonse Maille (1813, Rouen – 30 September 1865, Paris) was a French botanist.
In Paris, he studied botany under Adrien 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]
References
- 1 2 Google Books Catalogue des Reliquiae Mailleanae by Jean Louis Kralik, J. Billon
- ↑ Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
- ↑ JSTOR Global Plants Biography of Kralik, Jean-Louis (1813-1892).
- ↑ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ↑ GRIN Taxonomy for Plants Maillea, Parl.
- ↑ IPNI. Maille.
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