Valentine Allorge

Valia (Valentine) Selitsky Allorge (1888–1977) was a Russian-French botanist, phycologist, and bryologist known for studying the flora of the Pyrenees region.[1][2] The standard author abbreviation V.Allorge is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

She was born in the Russian Empire and emigrated to Nice in France before the start of World War I.[4] She studied in Switzerland and then at the University of Paris. At the University of Paris she worked in the lab of Gaston Bonnier. It was also at the University of Paris she met her first husband, C.-L. Gatin, who was a botanist. He was killed as a soldier in the French Army in World War I in 1916.[5]

In 1920 she married Pierre Allorge. He husband was the editor of Revue Bryologique, which she continued to edit after his death.[6]