Alphonse Maille (1813,

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population ...

– 30 September 1865, Paris) was a French botanist. In Paris, he studied botany under

Adrien-Henri de Jussieu Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (23 December 1797 – 29 June 1853) was a French botanist. Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Eupho ...

and worked on exsiccatae with

Timothée Puel Jean Jacques Timothée Puel (August 22, 1813 – January 28, 1890) was a French physician and botanist. A practicing physician in Paris, he was a founding member of the ''Société botanique de France'' (1854). He is known for his investigatio ...

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Catalogue des Reliquiae Mailleanae by Jean Louis Kralik, J. Billon In 1854 he was a founding member of the

Société botanique de France The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854. At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its di ...

. During his career he assembled an important

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (calle ...

of approximately 1000 packages that contained about 60,000 species. After his death, botanist

Jean-Louis Kralik Jean-Louis Kralik (1813, Strasbourg – 1892, Tresserve) was a French botanist. He worked as a professor in Strasbourg, and for a period of time was curator of Philip Barker Webb's herbarium. From 1855 to 1885 he was curator of Ernest Cosson's ...

published a catalog of Maille's collections as "Catalogue Des Reliquiae Mailleanae" (1869). In 1842 the grass genus ''Maillea'' (synonym ''

Phleum ''Phleum'' (timothy) is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the grass family. The genus is native to Europe, Asia and north Africa, with one species (''P. alpinum'') also in North and South America. They are tufted grasses growing to 20� ...

'', family Poaceae) was named in his honor by

Filippo Parlatore Filippo Parlatore (Palermo, 8 August 1816 – Florence, 9 September 1877) was an Italian botanist. He studied medicine at Palermo, but practiced only for a short time, his chief activity being during the cholera epidemic of 1837. Although at t ...

.GRIN Taxonomy for Plants
Maillea, Parl.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maille, Alphonse 1813 births 1865 deaths 19th-century French botanists Scientists from Rouen