Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard
Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard, name sometimes given as Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard-Briau (1872 – January 1928) was a French pharmacist and botanist.
In 1899 he obtained his doctorate in natural sciences at the University of Bordeaux, later serving as a professor at the school of medicine in Tours. He conducted botanical and exploratory investigations in the Canary Islands (1904–06), Tunisia (1907–10 & 1913) and Morocco (1911–13). Many of his plant collections were sent to herbaria in Geneva and Paris.[1][2]
He was the taxonomic authority of numerous botanical taxa. The genus Pitardia (Batt. ex Pit.) is named in his honor,[2] as are plants with the specific epithets of pitardii and pitardiana.[3][4]
Published works
- Les Iles Canaries. Flore de l'Archipel (1908) – The Canary Islands, flora of the archipelago (with Louis Proust, 1878–1959).
- Contribution à l'étude de la Flore du Maroc (1931) – Contribution to the study of Moroccan flora.[1]
Pitard also made significant contributions to the "Flore générale de L'Indo-Chine" (General flora of Indochina).[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 JSTOR Global Plants Pitard, Charles-Joseph Marie (1873-1927), biography
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ↑ Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored by Lorraine Harrison.
- ↑ Etymological Dictionary of Grasses by Harold T. Clifford, Peter D. Bostock
- ↑ WorldCat Title Flore Générale de L'Indo-Chine
- ↑ "Author Query for 'Pit.'". International Plant Names Index.