Lucile Allorge Explained

Lucile Allorge
Birth Name:	Lucile Boiteau
Birth Date:	1937 10, df=y
Birth Place:	Antananarivo, Madagascar
Nationality:	French
Occupation:	Botanist
Workplaces:	CNRS
Author Abbrev Bot:	L.Allorge
Father:	Pierre Boiteau

Lucile Allorge (Boiteau; born 25 October 1937) is a Madagascar-born French botanist.

Biography

Lucile Boiteau was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, 25 October 1937.^[1] Her father, Pierre Boiteau, was the founder and director of the Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza. Allorge holds a doctorate in botanical sciences.^{[2] [3]}

Allorge is a member of many learned societies, including the Société botanique de France where she won the 2011 .^[4]

In 1968, she joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). An honorary attaché at the National Museum of Natural History, France (MNHN), she has carried out numerous missions in French Guiana, Madagascar, the Philippines, Venezuela and Malaysia. Allorge has published more than 100 scientific articles. She has been named Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar.^[5] In 2007, she was elected to the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer as a corresponding member of the 4th section. She is a member of the Société des explorateurs français.^[6]

Eponymy

• Liliaceae Aloe lucile-allorgeae Rauh
• Crassulaceae Kalanchoe lucile-allorgei Rauh & Mangeldorf
• Buthidae Tityobuthus lucileae^[7]

Awards and honours

• Prix de Coincy, 2011
• Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar

Selected works

• Lucile Allorge, Plantes de Madagascar : atlas. Plaissan : MUSEO (1st ed. 2008), 2017
• Lucile Allorge (collaborator), Je sais utiliser mes huiles essentielles. Paris : Rue de l’échiquier, 2016
• Collective work under the direction of Lucile Allorge and Thomas Haevermans, Namoroka : mission à Madagascar. Toulouse : Privat ; Paris : Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2015
• Yves Delange, Yves-Marie Allain, Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Lucile Allorge, Les serres : le génie architectural au service des plantes. Arles : Actes Sud, 2013.
• Régine Rosenthal, Lucile Allorge, Jean-Noël Burte, Christian Messier, Origines : les forêts primaires dans le monde. Toulouse : Éditions Privat, 2012
• Lucile Allorge-Boiteau and Maxime Allorge, Faune et flore de Madagascar. Paris : Karthala, 2011
• Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, Régine Rosenthal, Madagascar : l'Eden fragile : biodiversité. Toulouse : Éditions Privat, 2010
• Lucile Allorge, Plantes de Madagascar : atlas. Paris : Ulmer, 2008
• Lucile Allorge, La fabuleuse odyssée des plantes : les botanistes voyageurs, les jardins des plantes, les herbiers. Paris : JC Lattès, 2003 (prix Émile Gallé)
• Suzanne Mollet and Lucile Allorge, Histoire du Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza Éditions Alzieu, Grenoble, 2000
• Pierre Boiteau, Marthe Boiteau and Lucile Allorge, Dictionnaire des noms malgaches des végétaux Éditions Alzieu. Grenoble. 1999
• Pierre Boiteau, Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, Kalanchoe (Crassulacées) de Madagascar : systématique, écophysiologie et phytochimie. Paris : Karthala, 1995
• Pierre Boiteau and Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, Plantes médicinales de Madagascar. Paris : Karthala, 1993
• Scientific direction of the republication of lillustration des genres by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, 1000 plates, 10 volumes. Paris : Éditions Amarca, 1989. Translation into Spanish by Liber Ediciones, 1995.
• Lucile Allorge, Monographie des Apocynacées - Tabernaemontanoïdées américaines. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, (Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sér. B – Botanique (1950-1992) ; 30). 1985.

Exhibitions

• Botanical passions: naturalists travelers at the time of the great discoveries: exhibition, Ploézal, Domaine départemental de la Roche Jagu, 7 June-9 November 2008. Rennes: Ouest-France, 2008

Filmography

• Sur la piste de Wallace, expedition to the Philippines in January 2000 under the direction of Patrice Franceschi. DVD.
• Les sortilèges de l’île rouge Madagascar, Ankarana, in November 2001, director Alain Tixier, Ushuaïa Nicolas Hulot, DVD.
• Le labyrinthe secret de Namoroka, directors Jean-Michel Corillion and Isabelle Coulon

Notes and References

1. Book: Laurence J. . Dorr . 1997 . Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands: A Biographical and Bibliographical Guide to Individuals and Groups who Have Collected Herbarium Material of Algae, Bryophytes, Fungi, Lichens, and Vascular Plants in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, Part 1 . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . 8 . 978-1-900347-18-1 . 1029975471 .
2. Web site: Academiciens - ALLORGE Lucile . Académie des sciences d'outre-mer . 26 January 2023 . fr.
3. Book: Monographie des Apocynacées - Tabernaemontanoïdées américaines . Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle . Paris . fr . 26 January 2023.
4. Web site: Prix de Coincy . Société botanique de France . 26 January 2023 . fr-FR . 26 November 2019.
5. Book: Allorge-Boiteau, Lucile . 2017 . Plantes de Madagascar: atlas . Museo éditions . Préface, by Peter B. Phillipson . fr . 978-2-373-75025-6 . 1005135486 .
6. Web site: Sociétaires actuels . Société des Explorateurs Français . 26 January 2023 . fr-FR.
7. A new species of Tityobuthus from Madagascar (Scorpiones, Buthidae) . Wilson R. Lourenço in Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Vol. 14-N. 1, pages 267-73, 14 May 1996.