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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Google Books Catalogue des Reliquiae Mailleanae by Jean Louis Kralik, J. Billon
  2. ↑ Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
  3. ↑ JSTOR Global Plants Biography of Kralik, Jean-Louis (1813-1892).
  4. ↑ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  5. ↑ GRIN Taxonomy for Plants Maillea, Parl.
  6. ↑ "Author Query for 'Maille'". International Plant Names Index.