Alphonse Maille Explained

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] [2] In 1854 he was a founding member of the Société botanique de France.[3]

During his career he assembled an important herbarium of approximately 1000 packages that contained about 60,000 species.[2] After his death, botanist Jean-Louis Kralik published a catalog of Maille's collections as "Catalogue Des Reliquiae Mailleanae" (1869) [4] and distributed his specimens as exsiccata Reliquiae Mailleanae.[5]

In 1842 the grass genus Maillea (synonym Phleum, family Poaceae) was named in his honor by Filippo Parlatore.[6] [7]

Notes and References

  1. Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=TFYXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55 Google Books
  3. http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=103037 Prosopo
  4. http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000004561?history=true& JSTOR Global Plants
  5. Web site: Reliquiae Mailleanae: IndExs ExsiccataID=1345806847 . IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München . 2 July 2024.
  6. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355343#page/272/mode/1up BHL
  7. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?15280 GRIN Taxonomy for Plants