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Henri Perrier de la Bâthie
Henri Perrier de la Bâthie (1873–1958) was a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar. He delineated the two chief floristic provinces of Madagascar (see Ecoregions of Madagascar). Some of his works include La végétation malgache (1921), Biogéographie de plantes de Madagascar (1936), and numerous volumes of the series Flore de Madagascar et des Comores (1946-1952).
The orchid genus Neobathiea (originally Bathiea) was named in his honor, as was the indrid lemur Perrier's Sifaka (Propithecus perrieri). Several species of Madgascar plants were named for him, including Erythrina perrieri , Ensete perrieri , Euphorbia perrieri , Podocarpus perrieri , Takhtajania perrieri (originally Bubbia perrieri), and Xerosicyos perrieri .
The standard botanical author abbreviation E.P.Perrier is applied to species he described.
Categories: French botanists | Botanists active in Africa | Botanists with author abbreviations | 1873 births | 1948 deaths
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