Henri Alain Liogier

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Henri Alain Liogier (also Hermano Alain or Enrique Eugenio Liogier, actually Henri Eugene Liogier de Sereys Allut ; born January 31, 1916 in Chomelix , France , † November 9, 2009 in Fort Worth , Texas ) was a French botanist . He made a significant contribution to the study of the Caribbean flora. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Alain ".

biography

In 1940 Liogier obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree and in 1945 a doctorate in natural sciences from the Universidad de La Habana in Cuba . In 1950, 1953 and 1957 he received a Guggenheim scholarship . From 1955 to 1962 he was a research fellow at Harvard University . In the following years he taught as a professor of biology and botany at various universities in the United States and in the Dominican Republic , including from 1964 to 1970 at Manhattan College in New York City and from 1970 to 1976 at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña in Santo Domingo . In 1965 he became an honorary curator for West Indian botany at the New York Botanical Garden . In 1978 he became a taxonomist at the University of Puerto Rico Botanical Gardens . Most recently, he was a research fellow at the Botanical Research Institute in Fort Worth , Texas .

On numerous expeditions to Cuba (1938–1960), Hispaniola (1968–1978) and Puerto Rico , Liogier collected over 45,000 specimens.

Liogier wrote more than 80 scientific articles and books and described over 300 new plant taxa from the Caribbean . One of his standard works is La Flora de la Española , which appeared in nine volumes between 1982 and 2000.

Dedication names

Taxa such as Terpsichore liogieri , Scolosanthus liogieri , Eleocharis liogieri or Psychotria liogieri are named after Liogier .

Works (selection)

  • Notas taxonómicas y ecológicas sobre la flora de Isla de Pinos , 1946
  • Flora de Cuba , 1962
  • A Biosystematic Study of North American Thlaspi Montanum and Its Allies , 1971
  • La flora de la Española: Análisis, origen probable , 1978
  • Antillean Studies , 1981
  • La flora de la Española, I , 1982
  • La flora de la Española, II , 1983
  • La flora de la Española, III , 1985
  • Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands, Vol. 1: Spermatophyta: Casuarinaceae to Connaraceae , 1985
  • La flora de la Española, IV , 1986
  • Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands, Vol. 2: Spermatophyta: Leguminoseae to Anacardiaceae , 1988
  • La flora de la Española, V , 1989
  • Plantas medicinales de Puerto Rico y del Caribe , 1990
  • Naturalized Exotic Species in Puerto Rico , 1991
  • La flora de la Española, VI , 1994
  • Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands, Vol. 3: Spermatophyta: Cyrillaceae to Myrtaceae , 1994
  • Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands, Vol. 4: Spermatophyta: Melastomatacere to Lentibulariaceae , 1995
  • La flora de la Española, VII , 1995
  • La flora de la Española, VIII , 1996
  • Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands, Vol. 5: Spermatophyta: Acanthaceae to Compositae , 1997
  • Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands: A Systematic Synopsis , 1999
  • La flora de la Española, IX , 2000

swell

  • Henri Alain Liogier: Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands: Spermatophyta . Editorial UPR, 1994. ISBN 0-8477-2336-4

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personal data
SURNAME Liogier, Henri Alain
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liogier, Alain; Liogier, Enrique Eugenio; Alain, Hermano; Henri Eugene Liogier de Sereys Allut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Chomelix , France
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2009
Place of death Fort Worth , Texas