Alfred Huet du Pavillon (January 1829, in

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– 1907, in

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) was a French

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. His brother, Édouard Huet du Pavillon (1819-1908), with whom he often collaborated, was also a botanist. He spent his childhood in

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and later studying under botanist

Alphonse de Candolle Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (27 October 18064 April 1893) was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. Biography De Candolle, son of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, first devot ...

. From 1852 to 1856, he served as the

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of de Candolle's

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. In the 1850s, he embarked on a series of botanical expeditions to the

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(including

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) and

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. In Italy and Sicily, he was accompanied by his brother, Édouard Huet du Pavillon. Together, the Huet brothers amassed an impressive

and issued at least some widely distributed series of

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, among others in 1856 ''Plantae Neapolitanae'' and ''Plantae Siculae 1856''.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2025 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany. In 1856,

Pierre Edmond Boissier Pierre Edmond Boissier (25 May 1810 Geneva – 25 September 1885 Valeyres-sous-Rances) was a Swiss prominent botanist, explorer and mathematician. He was the son of Jacques Boissier (1784-1857) and Caroline Butini (1786-1836), daughter of Pierr ...

introduced the genus name ''Huetia'' in honor of the Huet brothers.

Associated writings

* ''Description de quelques plantes nouvelles des Pyrénées'', 1853 - Description of some new plants of the Pyrénées. * ''Notice biographique sur les botanistes Edouard et Alfred Huet du Pavillon'', 1914, by Edouard Huet du Pavillon, Alfred Huet du Pavillon, and John Briquet.Google Books
(published works)

References

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