Lucile Allorge

Lucile Allorge
Born
Lucile Boiteau

(1937-10-25)25 October 1937
Antananarivo, Madagascar
Died31 August 2023(2023-08-31) (aged 85)
Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, France
OccupationBotanist
FatherPierre Boiteau
Awards
  • Prix de Coincy
  • Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar
Scientific career
WorkplacesCNRS
L.Allorge

Lucile Allorge (née Boiteau; 25 October 1937 – 29 August 2023) was a Madagascar-born French botanist.

Biography

Lucile Boiteau was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on 25 October 1937. Her father, Pierre Boiteau, was the founder and director of the Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza. Allorge held a doctorate in botanical sciences.

Allorge was a member of many learned societies, including the Société botanique de France where she won the 2011 Prix de Coincy [fr].

In 1968, she joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). An honorary attaché at the National Museum of Natural History, France (MNHN), she had carried out numerous missions in French Guiana, Madagascar, the Philippines, Venezuela and Malaysia. Allorge had published more than 100 scientific articles. She had been named Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar. In 2007, she was elected to the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer as a corresponding member of the 4th section. She was a member of the Société des explorateurs français.

Allorge died on 29 August 2023, at the age of 85.

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The standard author abbreviation L.Allorge is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

References

  1. ↑ Dorr, Laurence J. (1997). Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands: A Biographical and Bibliographical Guide to Individuals and Groups who Have Collected Herbarium Material of Algae, Bryophytes, Fungi, Lichens, and Vascular Plants in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, Part 1. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-900347-18-1. OCLC 1029975471.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Academiciens - ALLORGE Lucile". Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (in French). Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  3. ↑ Monographie des Apocynacées - Tabernaemontanoïdées américaines (in French). Paris: Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "Prix de Coincy" (in French). Société botanique de France. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  5. ↑ Allorge-Boiteau, Lucile (2017). "Préface, by Peter B. Phillipson". Plantes de Madagascar: atlas (in French). Museo éditions. ISBN 978-2-373-75025-6. OCLC 1005135486.
  6. ↑ "Sociétaires actuels" (in French). Société des Explorateurs Français. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
  7. ↑ "In Memoriam | Adieu à Lucie Allorge (1937-2023) – Société des Explorateurs Français" (in French). 2023-09-04. Retrieved 2026-05-10.
  8. ↑ A new species of Tityobuthus from Madagascar (Scorpiones, Buthidae) . Wilson R. Lourenço in Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Vol. 14-N. 1, pages 267-73, 14 May 1996.
  9. ↑ International Plant Names Index. L.Allorge.