Louis Jules Ernest Malinvaud

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Louis Jules Ernest Malinvaud (26 September 1836, in Paris – 22 September 1913) was a French physician and botanist.

Beginning in 1860, he studied medicine in Limoges and later Paris (from 1863). After serving as a doctor during the Franco-Prussian War, he left the medical practice in order to concentrate his energies towards botany.[1] As a botanist he collaborated with Pierre Marie Édouard Lamy de la Chapelle (1804–1886).[2]

In 1861 he became a member of the Société botanique de France. The plant genus Malinvaudia (subfamily Asclepiadaceae) was named after him by Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier (1834-1884).[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Sociétés savantes (biographical information)
  2. ^ UZH - Zürcher Herbarien - Sammler Details Zurich herbaria
  3. ^ CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms ... by Umberto Quattrocchi
  4. ^ United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area Germplasm Resources Information Network
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Malinv.