Louis Charles Trabut

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Louis Charles Trabut (1853-1929)

Louis Charles Trabut (12 July 1853 – 25 April 1929) was a French botanist and physician who was a native of Chambéry, department of Savoie. He is remembered for his work involving the flora of Algeria and Tunisia.

Trabut was a professor of natural history at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Algiers, and also a consultant physician to the Mustapha Pacha hospital. With botanist Jules Aimé Battandier (1848–1922), he published several works on Algerian flora, that included the following:

  • Flore de l'Algérie (Flora of Algeria) (1888–90).
  • L'Algérie, le sol et les habitants, flore, faune, geologie, anthropologie, ressources agricoles et économiques (Algeria, the land and its people, Flora, fauna, geology, anthropology, agricultural resources and economics) (1898).
  • Flore analytique et synoptique de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie (Flora analytic and synoptic of Algeria and Tunisia) (1905).

Honours[edit]

In 1881, mycologists Pier Andrea Saccardo and Casimir Roumeguère published a fungal genus (in the family Phyllachoraceae), Trabutia, which was named after Trabut.[1] In 1920, F.Stevens published Trabutiella, also in the family Phyllachoraceae. Lastly, Joanne E.Taylor, K.D.Hyde & E.B.G.Jones in 2003 published Tribulatia which is a monotypic genus of fungi in the family Phyllachoraceae.[2]

He also has several plant species named after him, such as the eucalyptus species Eucalyptus trabutii.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  2. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58.
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Trab.