Jean Marie Bosser (23 December 1922 – 6 December 2013), sometimes listed as Jean-Michel Bosser was a French botanist and agricultural engineer who worked extensively in Madagascar and

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...

. Bosser was a researcher at the Laboratoire de Phanérogamie at the

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

in Paris. From 1962 to 1963 he was the director of ORSTOM (Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre-mer, now

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) in

Antananarivo Antananarivo ( French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra ("Antananarivo-Mother Hill" or "An ...

, Madagascar. Together with Thérésien Cadet and

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he contributed to the series '' Flore des Mascareignes'' published by the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), the Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute (MSIRI), and the

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since 1976 and is a comprehensive work on the flora of

, Réunion, and

Rodrigues Rodrigues (french: Île Rodrigues, link=yes ; Creole: ) is a autonomous outer island of the Republic of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, about east of Mauritius. It is part of the Mascarene Islands, which include Mauritius and Réunion. Rodr ...

. Bosser described numerous new species from

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and the

Mascarenes The Mascarene Islands (, ) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of the islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of Réunion. Their ...

, such as '' Bulbophyllum labatii'', '' Cynanchum staubii'' and '' Cynanchum guehoi''. As of June 2014 the

International Plant Names Index The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It inclu ...

(IPNI) lists 318 taxa (including many orchids) described by Bosser either as sole author or as a co-author.

Publications (selected)

* 2000. ''Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar et des Mascareignes. XXIX. Révision de la section Kainochilus du genre Bulbophyllum''. Adansonia 22(2) 167–18
pdf online
* 2000. Bosser JM; D Florens. ''Syzygium guehoi ( Myrtaceae ), nouvelle espèce de l'île Maurice''. Adansonia 22(2) 183–18
pdf online
* 2001. Bosser JM; P Cribb. ''Trois nouvelles espèces de Bulbophyllum ( Orchidaceae ) de Madagascar''. Adansonia 23(1) 129–13
pdf online
* 2002. Bosser JM. ''Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXII. Un Cynorkis nouveau des Comores et un Eulophia nouveau de La Réunion''. Adansonia 24(1) 21–2
pdf online
* 2002. la Croix, I; JM Bosser; PJ Cribb. ''The genus Disperis ( Orchidaceae ) in Madagascar, the Comores, the Mascarenes & the Seychelles ''. Adansonia 24(1) 55–8
pdf online
* 2002. Bosser JM. ''Une nouvelle espèce de Turraea ( Meliaceae ) des Mascareignes. Localisation de T. thouarsiana et identité de T. casimiriana ''. Adansonia 24(1) 113–11
pdf online
* 2002. Bosser JM; J Guého. ''Deux nouvelles espèces de Pandanus ( Pandanaceae ) de l'île Maurice''. Adansonia 24(2) 239–24
pdf online
* 2003. Bosser JM; PJ Cribb. ''Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXIV. Bathiorchis , nouveau genre monotypique de Madagascar''. Adansonia 25(2) 229–23
pdf online
* 2004. Bosser, JM. ''Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXIII'' Adansonia 26(1) 53–6
pdf online
* 2005. Bosser, JM; R Rabevohitra. ''Espèces nouvelles dans le genre Dalbergia (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae) à Madagascar''. Adansonia 27(2) 209–21
pdf online
* 2006. Bosser, JM. ''Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXV. Description d'un Oeceoclades nouveau de Madagascar, et notes sur trois genres nouveaux pour les Mascareignes''. Adansonia 28(1) 45–5
pdf online
* 2012. Baider, C; FBV Florens; F Rakotoarivelo; J Bosser; T. Pailler. ''Two new records of Jumellea (Orchidaceae) for Mauritius (Mascarene Islands) and its conservation status''. Phytotaxa 52: 21–2
abstract online

Books

* 2007. Hermans, J; C Hermans; D Du Puy; P Cribb; JM Bosser. ''Orchids of Madagascar''. Ed. Royal Botanic Kew 398 pp.

Dedicated species

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Acanthaceae Acanthaceae is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes. Only a few species are distributed in te ...

) '' Anisostachya bosseri'' Benoist * (

Aizoaceae The Aizoaceae, or fig-marigold family, is a large family of dicotyledonous flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is d ...

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Delosperma ''Delosperma'' ('delos'=evident, 'sperma'=seed) is a genus of around 170 species of succulent plants, formerly included in ''Mesembryanthemum'' in the family Aizoaceae. It was defined by English botanist N. E. Brown in 1925. The genus is common ...

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Asphodelaceae Asphodelaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Asparagales. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists, but the circumscription has varied widely. In its current circumscription in the APG IV system, it includes about 40 ...

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Aloe ''Aloe'' (; also written ''Aloë'') is a genus containing over 650 species of flowering succulent plants.WFO (2022): Aloe L. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-4000001341. Accessed on: 06 Nov 2022 The most wid ...

bosseri'' J.-B.Castillon * (

Arecaceae The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm trees ...

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Dypsis bosseri ''Dypsis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae. They are slender, evergreen palms with yellow flowers carried in panicles amongst the pinnate leaves. Many ''Dypsis'' species have aerial branching (above the main trunk), a rare ...

J.Dransf. John Dransfield (born 1945) is an honorary research fellow and former head of palm research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom, as well as being an authority on the phylogenetic classification of palms. Dransfield has written o ...

(long known only by the holotype collected by Bosser in December 1962 until its rediscovery in 1999) * (

Asclepiadaceae The Asclepiadoideae are a subfamily of plants in the family Apocynaceae. Formerly, they were treated as a separate family under the name Asclepiadaceae, e.g. by APG II, and known as the milkweed family. They form a group of perennial herbs, twin ...

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Ceropegia ''Ceropegia'' is a genus of plants within the family Apocynaceae, native to Africa, southern Asia, and Australia. It was named by Carl Linnaeus, who first described this genus in his ''Genera plantarum'', which appeared in 1737. Linnaeus referre ...

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& Buchloh * (Asclepiadaceae) ''

Secamone ''Secamone'' is a genus of plant in family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810. It is widespread across much of Africa, northern Australia, southern Asia, with numerous species endemic to Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagas ...

bosseri'' Klack. * (

Begoniaceae Begoniaceae is a family of flowering plants with two genera and about 2040 species occurring in the subtropics and tropics of both the New World and Old World. All but one of the species are in the genus ''Begonia''. There have been many recent d ...

) ''

Begonia ''Begonia'' is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Begoniaceae. The genus contains more than 2,000 different plant species. The Begonias are native to moist subtropical and tropical climates. Some species are commonly grown ind ...

bosseri'' Keraudren * (

Boraginaceae Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees and herbs in 146, to 156 genera with a worldwide distribution. The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single family of the order ...

) '' Hilsenbergia bosseri'' J.S.Mill. * (

Cucurbitaceae The Cucurbitaceae, also called cucurbits or the gourd family, are a plant family consisting of about 965 species in around 95 genera, of which the most important to humans are: *''Cucurbita'' – squash, pumpkin, zucchini, some gourds *''Lagena ...

) ''

Ampelosicyos ''Ampelosicyos'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae. It is native to Madagascar. The genus name of ''Ampelosicyos'' is in honour of Ampelos, who was the personification of the grapevine and lover of Dionysus in ...

bosseri'' ( Keraudren) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner * (

Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' w ...

) '' Trichoschoenus bosseri'' J.Raynal * (

Dioscoreaceae Dioscoreaceae () is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, with about 715 known species in nine genera. The best-known member of the family is the yam (some species of '' Dioscorea''). The APG system (1998) and APG II system (2003) both ...

) ''

Dioscorea ''Dioscorea'' is a genus of over 600 species of flowering plants in the family Dioscoreaceae, native throughout the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world. The vast majority of the species are tropical, with only a few species extending ...

bosseri'' Haigh & Wilkin * (

Ericaceae The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it th ...

) ''

Erica Erica or ERICA may refer to: * Erica (given name) * ''Erica'' (plant), a flowering plant genus * Erica (chatbot), a service of Bank of America * ''Erica'' (video game), a 2019 FMV video game * ''Erica'' (spider), a jumping spider genus * Eric ...

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Dorr Dorr may refer to: * Dorr (surname) * Dorr, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran * Dorr Township, McHenry County, Illinois * Dorr Township, Michigan ** Dorr, Michigan See also * Door (disambiguation) * Dorr Rebellion * Wilmer Cutler P ...

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Eriocaulaceae The Eriocaulaceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the order Poales, commonly known as the pipewort family. The family is large, with about 1207 known species described in seven genera. They are widely distributed, with the ce ...

) '' Paepalanthus bosseri'' (

Morat Morat may refer to: * Morat, Switzerland, or Murten, a town in Switzerland * Battle of Morat (1476), between the Swiss Federation and Charles I, Duke of Burgundy * Morat (band), a Colombian folk band * Morat, a type of mead that uses mulberries. S ...

) T.Stützel * (

Euphorbiaceae Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants. In English, they are also commonly called euphorbias, which is also the name of a genus in the family. Most spurges, such as ''Euphorbia paralias'', are herbs, but some, e ...

) ''

Euphorbia bosseri ''Euphorbia bosseri'' is a species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. The species epithet commemorates Jean Marie Bosse ...

'' Leandri * (

Lamiaceae The Lamiaceae ( ) or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil, mint, rosemary, sage, savory ...

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Clerodendrum ''Clerodendrum'' is a genus of flowering plants formerly placed in the family Verbenaceae, but now considered to belong to the Lamiaceae (mint) family. Its common names include glorybower, bagflower and bleeding-heart. It is currently classified ...

bosseri'' Capuron * (Lamiaceae) ''

Plectranthus ''Plectranthus'' is a genus of about 85 species of flowering plants from the sage family, Lamiaceae, found mostly in southern and tropical Africa and Madagascar. Common names include spur-flower. ''Plectranthus'' species are herbaceous perennia ...

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Hedge A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced shrubs and sometimes trees, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area, such as between neighbouring properties. Hedges that are used to separate a road from adjoini ...

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Leguminosae The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenc ...

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Crotalaria ''Crotalaria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae (subfamily Faboideae) commonly known as rattlepods. The genus includes over 700 species of herbaceous plants and shrubs. Africa is the continent with the majority of ''Crotalar ...

bosseri'' M.Peltier * (Leguminosae) ''

Indigofera ''Indigofera'' is a large genus of over 750 species of flowering plants belonging to the pea family Fabaceae. They are widely distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Description Species of ''Indigofera'' are mo ...

bosseri'' Du Puy & Labat * (

Menyanthaceae Menyanthaceae is a family of aquatic and wetland plants in the order Asterales. There are approximately 60-70 species in six genera distributed worldwide. The simple or compound leaves arise alternately from a creeping rhizome. In the submers ...

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Nymphoides ''Nymphoides'', or floatingheart, is a genus of aquatic flowering plants in the family Menyanthaceae. The genus name refers to their resemblance to the water lily '' Nymphaea''. ''Nymphoides'' are aquatic plants with submerged roots and floating ...

bosseri'' A.Raynal * (

Monimiaceae The Monimiaceae is a family (biology), family of flowering plants in the magnoliid Order (biology), order Laurales.Peter F. Stevens (2001 onwards). "Monimiaceae" At: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. At: Botanical Databases At: Missouri Botanical Gar ...

) ''

Tambourissa ''Tambourissa'' is a genus of plant in family Monimiaceae. Its range includes Madagascar, the Comoro Islands, Réunion, and Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic ...

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Lorence Lorence is a given name and a surname. People so named include: * Lorence G. Collins, American petrologist * Lorence Wenke, American politician * Paul F. Lorence, United States Air Force Captain * Edna Sirius Lorence, Australian politician See ...

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Montiniaceae Montiniaceae is a family of flowering plants. It includes two or three genera of shrubs and small trees, native to southwest Africa and tropical East Africa as well as Madagascar. The genera '' Grevea'' and '' Montinia'' are included in most c ...

) '' Grevea bosseri'' Letouzey * (

Myrtaceae Myrtaceae, the myrtle family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, pōhutukawa, bay rum tree, clove, guava, acca (feijoa), allspice, and eucalyptus are some notable members of this group. All speci ...

) '' Eugenia bosseri'' J.Guého & A.J.Scott * (

Orchidaceae Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering ...

) ''

Angraecum The genus ''Angraecum'', abbreviated as Angcm in horticultural trade, common name comet orchid, contains about 220 species. Etymology Despite the genus's distribution being largely confined to Africa and its offshore islands, the genus name is a ...

bosseri'' Senghas * (Orchidaceae) '' Bilabrella bosseriana'' ( Szlach. & Olszewski) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. * (Orchidaceae) ''

Bulbophyllum ''Bulbophyllum'' is a genus of mostly epiphytic and lithophytic orchids in the family Orchidaceae. It is the largest genus in the orchid family and one of the largest genera of flowering plants with more than 2,000 species, exceeded in number onl ...

bosseri'' K.Lemcke * (Orchidaceae) ''

Disperis ''Disperis'' is a genus of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It has about 78 species.Mark W. Chase, Kenneth M. Cameron, John V. Freudenstein, Alec M. Pridgeon, Gerardo A. Salazar, Cássio van den Berg, and André Schuiteman. 2015. "An upd ...

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& P.J.Cribb * (Orchidaceae) '' Jumellea bosseri'' Pailler * (

Portulacaceae The Portulacaceae are a family of flowering plants, comprising 115 species in a single genus ''Portulaca''. Formerly some 20 genera with about 500 species, were placed there, but it is now restricted to encompass only one genus, the other genera ...

) '' Talinella bosseri'' Appleq. * (

Pteridaceae Pteridaceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales, including some 1150 known species in ca 45 genera (depending on taxonomic opinions), divided over five subfamilies. The family includes four groups of genera that are sometimes recogni ...

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Pteris ''Pteris'' (brake) is a genus of about 300 species of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae. They are native to tropical and subtropical regions, southward to New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, north to Japan an ...

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Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules ...

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Canthium ''Canthium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are shrubs and small trees. The leaves are deciduous and the stems are usually thorny. Distribution ''Canthium'' species are predominantly found in Southeast Asia, espec ...

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* (Rubiaceae) ''

Chassalia ''Chassalia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Family (biology), family Rubiaceae. The genus is found from tropical Africa to (sub)tropical Asia. Species * ''Chassalia acutiflora'' Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp, Bremek. * ''Chassalia a ...

bosseri'' Verdc. * (Rubiaceae) ''

Peponidium ''Peponidium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is endemic to Madagascar, except for '' Peponidium ovato-oblongum'' and '' Peponidium venulosum'' that are found on the Comoros, and '' Peponidium carinatum'' and ' ...

bosseri'' (

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Sterculiaceae Sterculiaceae was a family of flowering plant based on the genus ''Sterculia''. Genera formerly included in Sterculiaceae are now placed in the family Malvaceae, in the subfamilies: Byttnerioideae, Dombeyoideae, Helicteroideae and Sterculioideae. A ...

) ''

Acropogon ''Acropogon'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. The genus is endemic to New Caledonia. It contains around 25 species. Its closest relatives are Australian genera: ''Argyrodendron'', '' Brachychiton'' and ''Franciscodendron ...

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& Chalopin * (

Vitaceae The Vitaceae are a family of flowering plants, with 14 genera and around 910 known species, including common plants such as grapevines (''Vitis'' spp.) and Virginia creeper (''Parthenocissus quinquefolia''). The family name is derived from the ge ...

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Cissus ''Cissus'' is a genus of approximately 350 species of lianas (Woody plant, woody vines) in the grape family (Vitaceae). They have a cosmopolitan distribution, though the majority are to be found in the tropics. Uses Medicinal ''Cissus quadrang ...

bosseri'' Desc.Bull. Soc. Bot. France 112: 470. 1966 (IK)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bosser, Jean Marie Mauritian scientists 20th-century French botanists 1922 births 2013 deaths Agrostologists