Timothée Puel
Timothée Puel (1812 – 1890) was a French physician and botanist.
A practicing physician in Paris, he was a founding member of the Société botanique de France (1854).[1]
He is known for his investigations of flora native to the département of Lot, of which he published Catalogue des plantes qui croissent dans le département du Lot. Also, he issued a series of exsiccatae called Herbier du Lot.[2] The genus Puelia (family Gramineae) was named in his honor by Adrien René Franchet.[3]
Selected works
- Catalogue des plantes vasculaires qui croissent dans le département Lot, 1845-53 - Catalog of vascular plants native to the department of Lot.
- Catalogue des plantes qui croissent dans le département du Lot, 1852 - Catalog of plants native to the department of Lot.
- Études sur les divisions géographiques de la flore française, 1858-1860 - Studies of geographical divisions involving French flora.
- Revue critique de la flore du département du Lot, 1860-62 - Critical review on the flora of the department of Lot.[4]
References
- ↑ Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
- ↑ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ↑ M-Q (Volume 3 of CRC world dictionary of plant names: common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology) by Umberto Quattrocchi
- ↑ WorldCat Search publications
- ↑ "Author Query for 'Puel'". International Plant Names Index.