About Alphonse Maille
Lived 1813 – 1865 (aged 51–52). Alphonse Maille was a French botanist.
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. In 1854 he was a founding member of the Société botanique de France.
During his career he assembled an important herbarium of approximately 1000 packages that contained about 60,000 species. and distributed his specimens as exsiccata Reliquiae Mailleanae.
In 1842 the grass genus Maillea (synonym Phleum, family Poaceae) was named in his honor by Filippo Parlatore.
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Who was Alphonse Maille?
French botanist (1813-1865)
When was Alphonse Maille born?
Alphonse Maille was born in 1813 in Rouen.
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Alphonse Maille died on 30 October 1865 in Paris.
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Alphonse Maille was a botanist.
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Alphonse Maille was French.
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