François-Xavier Gillot Explained

François-Xavier Gillot (12 September 1842, in Autun – 8 October 1910, in Autun) was a French physician, mycologist and botanist.

Gillot was a founding member of the Société d'histoire naturelle d'Autun,^[1] and from 1877 was a non-resident member of the Société botanique de Lyon.^[2] The fungal genus Gillotia was named in his honor in 1913 by Pier Andrea Saccardo and Alessandro Trotter.^{[3] [4]}

Selected works

• Note sur la flore du plateau d'Antully, 1878 - Note on the flora from the plateau of Antully.
• Notice sur la flore de St. Honoré-les-Bains (Nièvre), 1883 - Notice on the flora of St. Honoré-les-Bains (Nièvre).
• Catalogue raisonné des champignons supérieurs (Hyménomycètes) des environs d'Autun et du département de Saône-et-Loire (with Jean Louis Lucand), 1891 - Catalogue raisonné of superior mushrooms (Hymenomycetes) found in the environs of Autun and the department of Saône-et-Loire.
• Contribution à l'étude des orchidées, 1898 - Contribution to the study of orchids.

External links

• IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Gillot.

Notes and References

1. http://societes-savantes.crl-bourgogne.org/index/fiche/17/societe_d_histoire_naturelle_d_autun.html#personnalites Société d’histoire naturelle d’Autun
2. http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=101530 Prosopo
3. http://www.acervodigital.ufrrj.br/sylloge/sylloge_fungorum/conteudo/vol_22_p1/vol_22_p1.pdf Sylloge Fungorum
4. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. . December 2007 . Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 . Myconet . 13 . 1–58 . The Field Museum, Department of Botany, Chicago, USA . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp . 2009-03-18 .