François-Xavier Gillot

François-Xavier Gillot (12 September 1842, Autun – 8 October 1910, Autun) was a French physician, mycologist and botanist.

François-Xavier Gillot (1842-1910)

Gillot was a founding member of the Société d'histoire naturelle d'Autun,[1] and from 1877 was a non-resident member of the Société botanique de Lyon.[2] The fungal genus Gillotia was named in his honor in 1913 by Pier Andrea Saccardo and Alessandro Trotter.[3][4]

Selected works
  • Note sur la flore du plateau d'Antully, 1878 - Note on the flora from the plateau of Antully.
  • Notice sur la flore de St. Honoré-les-Bains (Nièvre), 1883 - Notice on the flora of St. Honoré-les-Bains (Nièvre).
  • Catalogue raisonné des champignons supérieurs (Hyménomycètes) des environs d'Autun et du département de Saône-et-Loire (with Jean Louis Lucand), 1891 - Catalogue raisonné of superior mushrooms (Hymenomycetes) found in the environs of Autun and the department of Saône-et-Loire.
  • Contribution à l'étude des orchidées, 1898 - Contribution to the study of orchids.

References
  1. Société d’histoire naturelle d’Autun
  2. Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
  3. Sylloge Fungorum by P. A. Saccardo and Alex Trotter
  4. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. The Field Museum, Department of Botany, Chicago, USA. 13: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.
  5. International Plant Names Index.  Gillot.
  • IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Gillot.
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