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Jumelle, Henri Lucien (1866-1935)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Henri Lucien
Last name
Jumelle
Initials
H.L.
Life Dates
1866 - 1935
Collecting Dates
1887 - 1919
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
B, K, P
Countries
Tropical Africa: Congo, MauritaniaMadagascan region: Madagascar
Associate(s)
Perrier de la Bâthie, Joseph Marie Henry Alfred (1873-1958) (specimens from)
Biography
French botanist from Dreux, Eure-et-Loire who trained initially as a pharmacist. He joined the Faculté des Sciences in Paris as a plant physiologist (1887-1894) before being appointed professor of botany at the Faculté des Sciences in Marseille (1894-1935) and latterly director of the botanical garden and colonial museum in Marseille. He was mainly interested in applied botany and collaborated with J.M.H.A. Perrier de la Bâthie who sent him material from Madagascar. Though Jumelle published many new taxa for Madagascar and is widely attributed as the collector of Madagascan specimens, it is doubtful if he ever collected in Africa. He is commemorated by the genera Jumellea Schltr. in the Orchidaceae and Jumelleanthus Hochr. in the Malvaceae.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 311; Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 334; Dorr, L.J. Pl. Collectors Madagasc. Comoro Is. (1997): 230; Hepper, F.N. & Neate, F., Pl. Collectors W. Africa (1971): 43;
Jumelle, Henri Lucien (1866-1935)
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