Father Auguste-Marie Hue (15 August 1840– 22 June 1917) was a French lichenologist.

Biography

Hue was born on 15 August 1840, in

Saint-Saëns, Seine-Maritime Saint-Saëns (, until about 1940–1950 ) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. A small town of farming and associated light industry situated by the banks of the river Varenne in the Pays de Br ...

. He was ordained as a priest in 1865. From 1890 to 1915 he was a

chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...

at the Petites Sœurs des Pauvres in Levallois-Perret. He studied the

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.scientific expedition to Tunisia, the reports of which were published by

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(1854–1926). He also studied the lichens brought back by the French Antarctic Expeditions (1903–1905 and 1908–1910), commanded by Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867–1936). Father (1832–1900) sent him specimens collected in Louisiana. Hue has been credited for having introduced the lichen term in an 1906 publication. Hue died on 22 June 1917, in Levallois-Perret. n 1938, Carroll William Dodge and

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published '' Huea'', which is a genus of

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.fungi in the family Lecanoraceae and named in Hue's honour. ''

Hueidea ''Hueidea'' is a single-species fungal genus in the family Fuscideaceae. It contains the species ''Hueidea australiensis'', a saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen found on granite rocks in the Mount Kosciuszko area of New South Wales, Au ...

'' a monotypic genus of fungi was published by Kantvilas & P.M.McCarthy in 2003.

Selected publications

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Biography

Selected publications

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