Louis Charles Trabut Explained

Louis Charles Trabut (12 July 1853 – 25 April 1929) was a French botanist and physician who was a native of Chambéry, department of Savoie. He is remembered for his work involving the flora of Algeria and Tunisia.

Trabut was a professor of natural history at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Algiers, and also a consultant physician to the Mustapha Pacha hospital. With botanist Jules Aimé Battandier (1848–1922), he published several works on Algerian flora, that included the following:

• Flore de l'Algérie (Flora of Algeria) (1888–90).
• L'Algérie, le sol et les habitants, flore, faune, geologie, anthropologie, ressources agricoles et économiques (Algeria, the land and its people, Flora, fauna, geology, anthropology, agricultural resources and economics) (1898).
• Flore analytique et synoptique de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie (Flora analytic and synoptic of Algeria and Tunisia) (1905).

Honours

In 1881, mycologists Pier Andrea Saccardo and Casimir Roumeguère published a fungal genus (in the family Phyllachoraceae), Trabutia, which was named after Trabut.^[1] In 1920, F.Stevens published Trabutiella, also in the family Phyllachoraceae.Lastly, Joanne E.Taylor, K.D.Hyde & E.B.G.Jones in 2003 published Tribulatia which is a monotypic genus of fungi in the family Phyllachoraceae.^[2]

He also has several plant species named after him, such as the eucalyptus species Eucalyptus trabutii.

References

• Index of Botanists (publications)
• L’école de médecine d’Alger: 1857 à 2007 (translated from French)

Notes and References

1. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . January 27, 2022.
2. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. . December 2007. Outline of Ascomycota  - 2007 . Myconet . 13 . 1 - 58 . The Field Museum, Department of Botany . Chicago, USA .