Louis Jules Ernest Malinvaud Explained

Louis Jules Ernest Malinvaud (26 September 1836, in Paris – 22 September 1913) was a French physician and botanist.

Beginning in 1860, he studied medicine in Limoges and later Paris (from 1863). After serving as a doctor during the Franco-Prussian War, he left the medical practice in order to concentrate his energies towards botany.[1] As a botanist he collaborated with Pierre Marie Édouard Lamy de la Chapelle (1804–1886).[2] From 1877 until 1881 he edited the exsiccata Menthae exsiccatae praesertim Galliae.[3]

In 1861 he became a member of the Société botanique de France. The plant genus Malinvaudia (subfamily Asclepiadaceae) was named after him by Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier (1834-1884).[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=102205# Sociétés savantes
  2. http://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/static/database/sammlerdetails_de.php?id=970 UZH - Zürcher Herbarien - Sammler Details
  3. Web site: Menthae exsiccatae praesertim Galliae: IndExs ExsiccataID=1710601599 . IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 21 August 2024.
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=kaN-hLL-3qEC&pg=PA1599 CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms ...
  5. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?15289 United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area