Alphonse Maille

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] In 1854 he was a founding member of the Société botanique de France.[2]

During his career he assembled an important herbarium of approximately 1000 packages that contained about 60,000 species.[1] After his death, botanist Jean-Louis Kralik published a catalog of Maille's collections as "Catalogue Des Reliquiae Mailleanae" (1869).[3]

In 1842 the grass genus Maillea (synonym Phleum, family Poaceae) was named in his honor by Filippo Parlatore.[4][5]

References
  1. Google Books Catalogue des Reliquiae Mailleanae by Jean Louis Kralik, J. Billon
  2. Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
  3. JSTOR Global Plants Biography of Kralik, Jean-Louis (1813-1892).
  4. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  5. GRIN Taxonomy for Plants Archived 2012-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Maillea, Parl.
  6. International Plant Names Index.  Maille.
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