Hippolyte Hanry (15 April 1807,

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, Italy – 1893) was a French botanical collector and

taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the science, scientific study of naming, defining (Circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxon, taxa (si ...

. From 1831 onward, he served as justice of the peace in

Le Luc Le Luc (; Provençal: ''Lo Luc''), also known as Le Luc-en-Provence (''Lo Luc de Provença''), is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. Le Luc is the seat of its own canton, the larg ...

, a town in the department of Var. As a botanist, he collected plants in the vicinity of Le Luc.SOCIÉTÉ BOTANIQUE DE FRANCE
biographical information He was the author of the botanical section of the 1853 "''Prodrome d'histoire naturelle du département du Var''" (Prodomus on the

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of Var). His

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specimens are presently housed at the ''Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle'' in

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and in the herbarium at the

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. Plants with the

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of ''hanryi'' are named in his honor.

Published works

* ''Prodrome d'histoire naturelle du département du Var''. Draguignan, Garcin, 490 p. — Botanique par Hanry, 264 p. (1853). * ''Mercurialis Huetii'' (Bull. Soc.d' études scient, de Draguignan, p. p. 252-254), 1862 - treatise on the species ''Mercurialis huetii''. * ''Cryptogamie. Catalogue des Mousses et Hépatiques de Provence''. Aix, Remondet-Aubin, 22 p. 1867 -

Cryptogam A cryptogam (scientific name ''Cryptogamae'') is a plant, in the broad sense of the word, or a plant-like organism that share similar characteristics, such as being multicellular, photosynthetic, and primarily immobile, that reproduces via sp ...

s, catalog on

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 and

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s of

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.Bibdigital
(publications)

References

External links

IPNI
List of plants described and co-described by Hanry {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanry, Hippolyte 1807 births 1893 deaths People from Casale Monferrato 19th-century French botanists French bryologists