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Polyalthia Charitopoda
''Polyalthia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae. There are approximately 90 species distributed from Africa to Asia and the Pacific. [''Polyalthia''.] Flora of China.
These are trees and shrubs. The flower has six petals in two whorls, the inner petals curving inward over the centre. [
The name ''Polyalthia'' is derived from a combination of Greek words meaning ‘many cures’ with reference to the medicinal properties of certain species.]
Species
This large genus was known to be polyphyly, polyphyletic, with many species having been separated and reassigned to other genera. Species have also been transferred into this genus (''e.g. Phaeanthus malabaricus, P. malabarica'' from ''Phaeanthus'').
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Suzanne Jovet-Ast
Suzanne Jovet-Ast (born 1914) was a French botanist, who worked principally at the National Museum of Natural History, France.
Life
Suzanne Ast was born in Paris, France, on 8 February 1914. She received her Baccalauréat (1932) from Lycée Voltaire (Paris) and obtained her doctorate (1943) while at the National Museum of Natural History. In 1939 she married the French botanist Paul Jovet.
Work
She served as Cryptogamy Chair of the National Museum of Natural History from 1975 to 1982. Together with Hélène Bischler-Causse she co-founded the Association des Amis des Cryptogames in 1975. In her early work she studied the flowering plant family Annonaceae, while the majority of her professional career was focused on Bryophytes. She retired in 1982.
Legacy
She is the authority for at least 35 taxa
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a uni ...
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