Alire Raffeneau-Delile

Alire Raffeneau - Delile ( born January 23, 1778 in Versailles, † July 5, 1850 in Paris) was a French botanist and physician. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Delile ".

Alire Raffeneau Delile documented Napoleon's Egyptian campaign botany and later became director of the botanical garden of Montpellier.

Works

  • Description de l' Égypte. Histoire naturelle. Botanique, 1813-1814, 2nd edition 1824
  • Centurie de plants d' Afrique du voyage à Meroe, 1826

Ehrentaxa

After Delile the plant genera Delilia, Lilaea Humb.et Bonpl were. named from the family of trident plants ( Juncaginaceae ) and Raffenaldia.

Swell

  • Robert Zander ( Lim. ): Handbook of Plant Names. 17th Ed Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3573-6
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