Litardière, René Verriet de (1888-1957)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
René Verriet de
Last name
Litardière
Initials
R.V. de
Life Dates
1888 - 1957
Collecting Dates
1922 - 1943
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
G, LAU, MPU, P, RAB, STU
Countries
Europe: FranceWestern Asia: Israel, SyriaNorth Africa: Morocco, Tunisia
Associate(s)
Briquet, John Isaac (1870-1931) (co-author)
Emberger, Marie Louis (1897-1969) (co-collector)
Maire, René Charles Joseph Ernest (1878-1949) (co-collector)
Prevel, A. (fl. 1935-1943) (co-collector)
Biography
French botanist René Verriet de Litardière served at the Institute of Botany in Grenoble for most of his career. He was especially interested in the Mediterranean flora and is noted for his contribution to the knowledge of the flora of Corsica. He made around 30 expeditions to the island of Corsica, and co-authored three volumes of the Prodrome de la Flora Corse with J. Briquet.

Litardière was born in Mazieres'en Gatine and studied at the Institute of Botany in Poitiers. He served as a physician in the First World War, after which he undertook doctoral studies in Paris, on the subject of fern cytology. After ten years working at the University of Lille (1921-1931) he was appointed director of the Institute of Botany in Grenoble, remaining here until his retirement in 1954.

As well as his expertise on the flora of Corsica, Litardière was an authority on fescue grasses and French ferns. His collection of 30,000 specimens was deposited in the Geneva herbarium.

Sources:
D. Brillaud, 2010, "René Verriet de Litardière"
http://amopa79.org/pages/cinquantenaire-amopa/hommes-celebres/de%20litardiere.htm, accessed 21 September 2012
F.A. Stafleu and R.S. Cowan, 1981, Taxonomic Literature II, 3: 120.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 377; Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 451;
Litardière, René Verriet de (1888-1957)
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