René Maire

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René Maire

René Charles Joseph Ernest Maire (29 May 1878,

National Botanic Garden of Belgium.[2]

Biography

His botanical career began very early. At 18, he penned a work on the local flora of the

University of Algiers. His magnum opus
was The Flora of North Africa, a 16-volume work published posthumously in 1953.

Named species

Among species he named or renamed are:

He also erected the family Paxillaceae, noting its affinities with boletes, in 1902, based on anatomical similarities.[4] This was confirmed many years later by molecular studies firmly placing the genera Paxillus and Gyrodon at the base of the clade containing the members of the genus Boletus.[5]

Legacy

The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Prix Montagne for 1903.[6]

Several species were named in his honour, including fungi, such as the beechwood sickener (

Russula mairei), Maireella (which is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes),[7] René Maire's ringless Amanita (Amanita mairei) from Egypt,[8] Clitocybe mairei, Conocybe mairei, Clavicorona mairei, Cortinarius mairei, Galerina mairei, Hemimycena mairei, and Lactarius mairei, among others, as well as some North African plants such as the ornamental grass Atlas fescue (Festuca mairei).[9] The genus Mairetis from the Canary Islands and Morocco, (in the Boraginaceae family) is also named after him.[10]

The standard author abbreviation Maire is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[11]

Species names for Maire typically end in mairei.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ René Maire, allocution de M. Edmond Sergent[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ National Botanic Garden of Belgium (2007). "Collectors for the Herbarium of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium - MAIRE". National Botanic Garden of Belgium website. National Botanic Garden of Belgium. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
  3. ^ a b Fleur, Elie (1935). "Cent ans d'activité scientifique [A hundred years of scientific activity]". Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle de la Moselle (in French). 34: 54.
  4. ^ Maire, R (1902). "Recherches cytologiques et taxonomiques sur les Basidiomycetes". Bull. Soc. Mycol. Fr. (in French). 18 (supplement): 1–212.
  5. PMID 10620406. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2006-02-19. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
  6. ^ "Séance du 21 décembre". Le Moniteur Scientifique du Docteur Quesneville: 156–157. February 1904.
  7. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.
  8. ^ Tulloss, Rodham E. (2004). "Amanita mairei Foley "René Maire's ringless Amanita"". Studies in the Genus Amanita Pers.(Agaricales, Fungi). Retrieved 2008-03-12.
  9. ^ Chinese plants with the same epithet were named for Edouard Ernest Maire, 19th century missionary in Yunnan, China who collected many specimens there.
  10. ^ "Mairetis I.M.Johnst. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  11. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Maire.
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