Élie Marchal (1 March 1839, in

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– 19 February 1923, in

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) was a Belgian

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and

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From 1861 to 1871, he was a middle-school teacher in the communities of

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and Maeseyck. From 1871 to 1879 he was associated with research done at the '' Jardin botanique des Bruxelles''. Additionally, from 1872 until 1899, he worked as a lecturer at various

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and teacher schools. In 1899 he retired to Gembloux, where he worked closely with his son, botanist Émile Marchal (1871–1954).BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications He was the binomial author of numerous species within the flowering plant family

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. The mycological genera '' Marchaliella'' and '' Marchalia'' are named in his honor, the latter genus being

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Selected works

* ''Révision des Hédéracées américaines : description de dix-huit espèces nouvelles et d'un genre inédit'', 1879 - Revision of American Hederaceae, description of 18 new species and a unique genus. * ''Notice sur les hédéracées récoltées : dans la Nouvelle-Grenade, l'Équateur et le Pérou'', 1880 - Notice involving Hederaceae collected in New Granada,

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and

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. * ''Recherches expérimentales sur la sexualité des spores chez les mousses dioïques'', 1906 - Experimental research on spore sexuality in

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es (with Émile Marchal).IDREF.fr
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References

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