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French botanist
A.K.A.
Maille
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Male
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Birth:
1813(Rouen, arrondissement of Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France)
Death:
30 October 1865(Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France)
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Biography
Alphonse Maille (1813, Rouen – 30 September 1865, 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. After his death, botanist Jean-Louis Kralik published a catalog of Maille's collections as "Catalogue Des Reliquiae Mailleanae" (1869).
In 1842 the grass genus Maillea (synonym Phleum, family Poaceae) was named in his honor by Filippo Parlatore.