Kralik, Jean-Louis (1813-1892)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Jean-Louis
Last name
Kralik
Initials
J.-L.
Life Dates
1813 - 1892
Collecting Dates
1841 - 1864
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
AUT, AWH (currently BR), B, BM, BR, C, CN, CR, E, FABR, FI, FR, G, GH, GOET, HAL, HEID, K, L, LE, LY, LZ, MANCH, MO, MPU, MSB, NCY, NMW, NTM, OXF, P, P-CO, S, STU, US, W, WAG
Countries
North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, TunisiaEurope: France, Italy, Malta, SwitzerlandWestern Asia: Saudi ArabiaTropical Africa: Sudan
Associate(s)
Cosson, Ernest Saint-Charles (1819-1889) (co-collector, distributed material)
de la Perraudière, Henri René Le Tourneux (1831-1861) (co-collector)
Ibrahim Ammeribt (fl. 1873-1889) (co-collector)
Kralik, Louis (synonym)
Tunelanou, K. (fl. 1834-1854) (co-collector)
Biography
French botanist Jean-Louis Kralik served as professor at Strasbourg University and curator of the Webb herbarium. He also curated the Cosson herbarium from 1855-1885. Kralik made extensive collections of plants in Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia. His most significant publication was Catalogue Des Reliquiae Mailleanae (1869), a catalogue of the collections of Alphonse Maille. The genus Kralikia Coss. & Durieu was named in his honour.

Sources:
F.A. Stafleu and R.S. Cowan, 1979, Taxonomic Literature II, 2: 661.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 341; Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 384; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 62; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 38; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 140; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 160;
Kralik, Jean-Louis (1813-1892)
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