Organisation(s)
P (main), B, BM, BR, CAS, CN, DBN, E, FH (currently GH), FI, FI-W, G, G-DC, G-DEL, H-BR, K, L, LE, M, MO, NCY, NEU, NY, PC, S, TAN, TCD, TUR-V, U, US, W, WAG, WB, Z
Countries
West African Islands: Cape Verde, Canary IslandsMadagascan region: Comoros, Madagascar, MayotteTropical Africa: Eritrea, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, SocotraEurope: FranceMascarenes: Mauritius, ReunionIndian Ocean region: SeychellesSouthern Africa: South Africa
Associate(s)
Desfontaines, René Louiche (1750-1833) (co-collector)
Jussieu, Adrien Henri Laurent de (1797-1853) (co-collector)
Biography
French botanist and explorer from Compiègne, Oise, the son of a pharmacist. He initially trained in medicine but later switched to botany, a student of R.L. Desfontaines and A.H.L. de Jussieu. Boivin joined the Oise Expedition (1846-1852) to the islands of the Indian Ocean as the official botanist. He collected both plants and animals but contracted malaria and, suffering from exhaustion, died the day after his return to France. Plant names which commemorate Boivin include a great many species and the genera Boivinella A. Camus in the Poaceae, Neoboivinella Aubrév. & Pellegr. in the Sapotaceae and Bivinia Jaub. ex Tul. in the Flacourtiaceae.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 73; Dorr, L.J. Pl. Collectors Madagasc. Comoro Is. (1997): 49; Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 95; Hedge, I.C. & Lamond, J.M., Index Coll. Edindb. Herb. (1970): 61; Hepper, F.N. & Neate, F., Pl. Collectors W. Africa (1971): 11; Holmgren, P., Holmgren, N.H. & Barnett, L.C., Index Herb., ed. 8 (1990): 186; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 9; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 83; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): 261;
