Hippolyte Hanry (15 April 1807,

Casale Monferrato Casale Monferrato () is a town in the Piedmont region of Italy, in the province of Alessandria. It is situated about east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrat hills. Beyond the river lies the v ...

, Italy – 1893) was a French botanical collector and

taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...

. From 1831 onward, he served as justice of the peace in

Le Luc Le Luc (; Provençal: ''Lo Luc''), also known as Le Luc-en-Provence (''Lo Luc de Provença''), is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 11,094. Le Luc is ...

, a town in the department of Var. As a botanist, he collected plants in the vicinity of Le Luc.SOCIÉTÉ BOTANIQUE DE FRANCE
biographical information He was the author of the botanical section of the 1853 "''Prodrome d'histoire naturelle du département du Var''" (Prodomus on the natural history of Var). His

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

specimens are presently housed at the ''Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle'' in

Nîmes Nîmes ( , ; oc, Nimes ; Latin: ''Nemausus'') is the prefecture of the Gard department in the Occitanie region of Southern France. Located between the Mediterranean Sea and Cévennes, the commune of Nîmes has an estimated population of 148,5 ...

and in the herbarium at the

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. Plants with the

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of ''hanryi'' are named in his honor.

Published works

* ''Prodrome d'histoire naturelle du département du Var''. Draguignan, Garcin, 490 p. — Botanique par Hanry, 264 p. (1853). * ''Mercurialis Huetii'' (Bull. Soc.d' études scient, de Draguignan, p. p. 252-254), 1862 - treatise on the species ''Mercurialis huetii''. * ''Cryptogamie. Catalogue des Mousses et Hépatiques de Provence''. Aix, Remondet-Aubin, 22 p. 1867 -

Cryptogam A cryptogam (scientific name Cryptogamae) is a plant (in the wide sense of the word) or a plant-like organism that reproduces by spores, without flowers or seeds. The name ''Cryptogamae'' () means "hidden reproduction", referring to the fact ...

s, catalog on

moss Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hor ...

es and

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s of

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References

External links

IPNI
List of plants described and co-described by Hanry {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanry, Hippolyte 1807 births 1893 deaths People from Casale Monferrato 19th-century French botanists Bryologists