Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie

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Illustration from Flore de Madagascar et des Comores

Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie (11 August 1873 – 2 October 1958) was a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar.

He is the nephew of Eugène Pierre Perrier de la Bâthie, (1825-1916), another botanist,[1] who also collected plants with him.[2]

He delineated the two chief

floristic provinces of Madagascar (see Ecoregions of Madagascar
). Some of his works include La végétation malgache (1921), Biogéographie de plantes de Madagascar (1936), and numerous volumes of the series Flore de Madagascar et des Comores (1946-1952).

Honours

The

indriid lemur Perrier's sifaka
(Propithecus perrieri). He has other plant genera named in his honour.
succulent plants of the family Crassulaceae.[8]

Several species of Madagascar plants were also named for him, including

Takhtajania perrieri, (originally named Bubbia perrieri) and Xerosicyos perrieri.[12]

The standard author abbreviation H.Perrier is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Perrier de la Bâthie, Eugène Pierre (1825-1916)". ipni.org. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  2. ^ "Perrier de la Bâthie, Joseph Marie Henry Alfred (1873-1958)". jstor.org. Retrieved 4 November 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. S2CID 187926901
    . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Perriera Courchet | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Perrierophytum Hochr. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  6. ^ Camus, Aimée Antoinette. 1924. Perrierbambus, genre nouveau de Bambusées malgaches. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 71: 699-700
  7. ^ "Perrierodendron". Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 1 Jan 2017 – via Tropicos.org.
  8. ^ "Perrierosedum". Kew Plant List. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  9. ^ "Adenia perrieri Clavaud | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  10. ^ G.E. Wickens The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia, p. 259, at Google Books
  11. ^ "Jumelleanthus perrieri Hochr. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  12. ^ "Xerosicyos perrieri Humbert | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  13. ^ International Plant Names Index.  H.Perrier.


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