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]
References
edit- ^ Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
- ^ a b Google Books Catalogue des Reliquiae Mailleanae by Jean Louis Kralik, J. Billon
- ^ Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
- ^ JSTOR Global Plants Biography of Kralik, Jean-Louis (1813-1892).
- ^ "Reliquiae Mailleanae: IndExs ExsiccataID=1345806847". IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
- ^ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ GRIN Taxonomy for Plants Archived 2012-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Maillea, Parl.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Maille.