Louis Charles Trabut (1853-1929)

Louis Charles Trabut (12 July 1853 – 25 April 1929) was a French botanist and physician who was a native of Chambéry, department of Savoie. He is remembered for his work involving the flora of Algeria and Tunisia.

Trabut was a professor of natural history at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Algiers, and also a consultant physician to the Mustapha Pacha hospital. With botanist Jules Aimé Battandier (1848–1922), he published several works on Algerian flora, that included the following:

Honours

In 1881, mycologists Pier Andrea Saccardo and Casimir Roumeguère published a fungal genus (in the family Phyllachoraceae), Trabutia, which was named after Trabut.[1] In 1920, F.Stevens published Trabutiella, also in the family Phyllachoraceae. Lastly, Joanne E.Taylor, K.D.Hyde & E.B.G.Jones in 2003 published Tribulatia which is a monotypic genus of fungi in the family Phyllachoraceae.[2]

He also has several plant species named after him, such as the eucalyptus species Eucalyptus trabutii.

The standard author abbreviation Trab. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

References

  1. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  2. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58.
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Trab.


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