Paul Alfred Pételot
Paul Alfred Pételot | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1885 Saint-Max, France |
| Died | 1965 |
| Nationality | French |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, Entomology |
| Institutions | Nancy-Université Faculté Mixte de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Saigon Institute of Agronomic Research, Saigon |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Pételot |
Paul Alfred Pételot (1885–1965)[1] was a French botanist and entomologist, whose primary scholarly focus was on medicinal plants in Southeast Asia.[2] Some sources list his date of death as 1940,[2] but several herbaria specimens are recorded as being collected by him up until 1944 including Carex kucyniakii (1944),[3] Teijsmanniodendron peteloti (1941), Amalocalyx microlobus (1941), Amalocalyx microlobus (1942), Trichosanthes kerrii (1944) and Siraitia siamensis (1944).[4] In addition, he continued to author publications through the 1950s, though it is possible these are posthumous.[5][6]
Life
Pételot was born in
Work
He collected a large number of botanical specimens from Southeast Asia which have been deposited in the French National Museum of Natural History.[2]
The standard author abbreviation Pételot is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]
Legacy
He is the authority on botanical
Several taxa are named in his honor including:
- Petelotiella Gagnep.[9]
- Aganosma petelotii Lý
- Merr.
- Ardisia petelotii E.Walker
- Arisaema petelotii K.Krause
- Aristolochia petelotii O.C.Schmidt
- Merr.
- Artocarpus petelotii Gagnep.
- Asarum petelotii O.C.Schmidt
- Callicarpa petelotii Dop
- Merr.) Sealy
- Carex petelotii Gross
- Merr.
- Merr. ex Croizat
- Clethra Petelotii Dop & Troch.-Marq.
- Cryptochilus petelotii Gagnep.
- Digitaria petelotii Henrard
- Dioscorea petelotii Prain & Burkill
- Merr.) D.M.Johnson
- Dracontomelon petelotii Tardieu
- Merr.
- Elatostema petelotii Gagnep.
- Merr.
- Merr.
- Merr.ex Tirveng. & Sastre
- Glycosmis petelotii Guillaumin
- Habenaria petelotii Gagnep.
- Merr.
- Merr.) G.M.Plunkett & Lowry
- Merr.
- Hydrocotyle petelotii Tardieu
- Illicium petelotii A.C.Sm.
- Indocalamus petelotii (A.Camus) Ohrnb.
- Isachne petelotii A.Camus
- Lecanthus petelotii (Gagnep.) C.J.Chen
- Liparis petelotii Gagnep.
- Lithocarpus petelotii A.Camus
- Merr.
- Lysionotus petelotii Pellegr.
- Merr.
- Merr.& F.L.Freeman
- Mitrephora petelotii Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- Paramignya petelotii Guillaumin
- Pedicularis petelotii P.C.Tsoong
- Phyllanthus petelotii Croizat
- Merr.) Thiv
- Pogostemon petelotii Doan ex Gang Yao, Y.F.Deng & X.J.Ge
- Primula petelotii W.W.Sm.
- Quercus petelotii A.Camus
- B.L.Burtt
- Scirpus petelotii Gross
- Selaginella petelotii Alston
- Smilax petelotii T.Koyama
- Merr.) C.Hansen
- Staurogyne petelotii Benoist
- Teucrium petelotii Doan ex Suddee & A.J.Paton
- Thelypteris petelotii Ching
- Merr.
- Viola petelotii W.Becker ex Gagnep.
References
- ^ "Pételot, (Paul) Alfred". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Pételot, Paul Alfred (1885c.1940)". JSTOR Global Plants. ITHAKA. n.d. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ Chalmers-Brooks, Katie (2020). "The Seekers". UM Today Magazine. Spring 2020.
- ^ "Index of Botanical Specimens". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries: Index of Botanical Specimens. The President and Fellows of Harvard College. n.d. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
- ^ Pételot, Paul Alfred (1952–54). Les plantes médicinales du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam [Medicinal plants from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam] (in French). Vol. 1–4. Saigon: Archives des Researches Agronomiques et Pastorales au Viêtnam.
- ^ Pételot, A (1955). Bibliographie Botanique de l'Indochine [Botanical Bibliography of Indochina] (in French). Saigon: État du Vietnam, Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifiques et Techniques.
- ^ Loyer, Maurice (1924). "Rapport au nom de la Commission des Recompenses" [Report on behalf of the Compensation Commission]. Bulletin de la Société Nationale d'Acclimatation de France (in French): 225.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Pételot.
- ^ "Petelotiella Gagnep. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
