Élie Marchal (1 March 1839, in

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– 19 February 1923, in

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) was a Belgian

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and

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From 1861 to 1871, he was a middle-school teacher in the communities of

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, Ath,

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and Maeseyck. From 1871 to 1879 he was associated with research done at the '' Jardin botanique des Bruxelles''. Additionally, from 1872 until 1899, he worked as a lecturer at various

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and teacher schools. In 1899 he retired to Gembloux, where he worked closely with his son, botanist Émile Marchal (1871–1954).BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications He was the binomial author of numerous species within the flowering plant family

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. The mycological genera '' Marchaliella'' and '' Marchalia'' are named in his honor, the latter genus being

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Pier Andrea Saccardo Pier Andrea Saccardo (23 April 1845 in Treviso, Province of Treviso, Treviso – 12 February 1920 in Padua, Italy, Padua) was an Italian botany, botanist and mycology, mycologist. His multi-volume ''Sylloge Fungorum'' was one of the first attempt ...

Selected works

* ''Révision des Hédéracées américaines : description de dix-huit espèces nouvelles et d'un genre inédit'', 1879 - Revision of American Hederaceae, description of 18 new species and a unique genus. * ''Notice sur les hédéracées récoltées : dans la Nouvelle-Grenade, l'Équateur et le Pérou'', 1880 - Notice involving Hederaceae collected in

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and

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. * ''Recherches expérimentales sur la sexualité des spores chez les mousses dioïques'', 1906 - Experimental research on spore sexuality in

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moss Mosses are small, non-vascular plant, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic phylum, division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryo ...

es (with Émile Marchal). He edited two exsiccatae, namely ''Les Glumacées de Belgique'' (1869–1871) with C. A. Cogniaux and ''Cryptogames de Belgique'' (1882).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marchal, Elie 1839 births 1923 deaths 19th-century Belgian botanists Belgian mycologists People from Ardennes (department) 20th-century Belgian botanists