Timothée Puel
French botanist

Timothée Puel

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French botanist
A.K.A.
Puel
Gender:
Male
Places:
France
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PhysicianScientistBotanist
Work field:
HealthcareScience
Birth:
1812
Death:
1890
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Jean Jacques Timothée Puel (August 22, 1813 – January 28, 1890) was a French physician and botanist.

A practicing physician in Paris, he was a founding member of the Société botanique de France (1854).

He is known for his investigations of flora native to the département of Lot, of which he published Catalogue des plantes qui croissent dans le département du Lot. Also, he issued a series of exsiccatae called Herbier du Lot. The genus Puelia (family Gramineae) was named in his honor by Adrien René Franchet.

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  • Catalogue des plantes vasculaires qui croissent dans le département Lot, 1845-53 - Catalog of vascular plants native to the department of Lot.
  • Catalogue des plantes qui croissent dans le département du Lot, 1852 - Catalog of plants native to the department of Lot.
  • Études sur les divisions géographiques de la flore française, 1858-1860 - Studies of geographical divisions involving French flora.
  • Revue critique de la flore du département du Lot, 1860-62 - Critical review on the flora of the department of Lot.
The standard author abbreviation Puel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.