Alphonse Maille (1813 in Rouen – 30 September 1865 in Paris) was a French botanist.
In Paris, he studied botany under Adrien-Henri de Jussieu and worked on exsiccatae with Timothée Puel.12 In 1854 he was a founding member of the Société botanique de France.3
During his career he assembled an important herbarium of approximately 1000 packages that contained about 60,000 species.2 After his death, botanist Jean-Louis Kralik published a catalog of Maille's collections as "Catalogue Des Reliquiae Mailleanae" (1869) 4 and distributed his specimens as exsiccata Reliquiae Mailleanae.5
In 1842 the grass genus Maillea (synonym Phleum, family Poaceae) was named in his honor by Filippo Parlatore.67
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References
- Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
- Google Books Catalogue des Reliquiae Mailleanae by Jean Louis Kralik, J. Billon
- Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
- JSTOR Global Plants Biography of Kralik, Jean-Louis (1813-1892).
- "Reliquiae Mailleanae: IndExs ExsiccataID=1345806847". IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
- BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- GRIN Taxonomy for Plants Archived 2012-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Maillea, Parl.
- International Plant Names Index. Maille.