Lucile Allorge ( Boiteau; born 1937) is a Madagascar-born French

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Biography

Lucile Boiteau was born 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, October 25, 1937. Her father,

Pierre Boiteau Pierre Louis Boiteau (3 December 1911 – 1 September 1980) was a French botanist. References 20th-century French botanists 1911 births 1980 deaths Deaths from cancer in France {{France-scientist-stub ...

, was the founder and director of the

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. Allorge holds a doctorate in botanical sciences. She is a member of many learned societies, including the

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where she won the 2011 . She joined the

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(CNRS) in 1968. An honorary attaché at the

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(MNHN), she has carried out numerous missions in French Guiana, Madagascar, the Philippines, Venezuela and Malaysia. Allorge has published more than 100 scientific articles. She has been named Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar. In 2007, she was elected to the

Académie des sciences d'outre-mer An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

as a corresponding member of the 4th section. She is a member of the Société des explorateurs français.

Eponymy

Liliaceae The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Plants in this family have evolved with a fair ...

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 ...

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Crassulaceae The Crassulaceae (from Latin ''crassus'', thick), also known as the stonecrop family or the orpine family, are a diverse family of dicotyledon flowering plants characterized by succulent leaves and a unique form of photosynthesis, known as Crass ...

Kalanchoe ''Kalanchoe'' , also written ''Kalanchöe'' or ''Kalanchoë'', is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa. A ''Kalanchoe'' species was one ...

lucile-allorgei'' Rauh & Mangeldorf *

Buthidae The Buthidae are the largest family of scorpions, containing about 100 genera and 1339 species as of 2022. A few very large genera (''Ananteris'', ''Centruroides'', '' Compsobuthus'', or '' Tityus'') are known, but a high number of species-poor o ...

''Tityobuthus lucileae''A new species of ''Tityobuthus'' from Madagascar (Scorpiones, Buthidae) . Wilson R. Lourenço in ''Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali'', Torino, Vol. 14-N. 1, pages 267-73, 14 May 1996.

Awards and honours

* Prix de Coincy, 2011 * Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar

Selected works

* Lucile Allorge, ''Plantes de Madagascar : atlas''. Plaissan : MUSEO (1st ed. 2008), 2017 * Lucile Allorge (collaborator), ''Je sais utiliser mes huiles essentielles''. Paris : Rue de l’échiquier, 2016 * Collective work under the direction of Lucile Allorge and Thomas Haevermans, ''Namoroka : mission à Madagascar.'' Toulouse : Privat ; Paris :

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, 2015 * Yves Delange, Yves-Marie Allain, Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Lucile Allorge, ''Les serres : le génie architectural au service des plantes''. Arles :

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, 2013. * Régine Rosenthal, Lucile Allorge, Jean-Noël Burte, Christian Messier, ''Origines : les forêts primaires dans le monde''. Toulouse : Éditions Privat, 2012 * Lucile Allorge-Boiteau and Maxime Allorge, ''Faune et flore de Madagascar.'' Paris : Karthala, 2011 * Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, Régine Rosenthal, ''Madagascar : l'Eden fragile : biodiversité.'' Toulouse : Éditions Privat, 2010 * Lucile Allorge, ''Plantes de Madagascar : atlas.'' Paris : Ulmer, 2008 * Lucile Allorge, ''La fabuleuse odyssée des plantes : les botanistes voyageurs, les jardins des plantes, les herbiers''. Paris :

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, 2003 (prix Émile Gallé) * Suzanne Mollet and Lucile Allorge, ''Histoire du Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza'' Éditions Alzieu, Grenoble, 2000 * Pierre Boiteau, Marthe Boiteau and Lucile Allorge, ''Dictionnaire des noms malgaches des végétaux'' Éditions Alzieu. Grenoble. 1999 * Pierre Boiteau, Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, ''Kalanchoe (Crassulacées) de Madagascar : systématique, écophysiologie et phytochimie.'' Paris : Karthala, 1995 * Pierre Boiteau and Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, ''Plantes médicinales de Madagascar.'' Paris : Karthala, 1993 * Scientific direction of the republication of lillustration des genres'' by

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, 1000 plates, 10 volumes. Paris : Éditions Amarca, 1989. Translation into Spanish by Liber Ediciones, 1995. * Lucile Allorge, ''Monographie des Apocynacées - Tabernaemontanoïdées américaines''.

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, Paris, (Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sér. B – Botanique (1950-1992) ; 30). 1985.

Exhibitions

* ''Botanical passions: naturalists travelers at the time of the great discoveries'': exhibition, Ploézal, Domaine départemental de la Roche Jagu, 7 June-9 November 2008. Rennes: Ouest-France, 2008

Filmography

* ''Sur la piste de Wallace'', expedition to the Philippines in January 2000 under the direction of

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. DVD. * ''Les sortilèges de l’île rouge'' Madagascar, Ankarana, in November 2001, director Alain Tixier, Ushuaïa

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, DVD. * ''Le labyrinthe secret de Namoroka'', directors Jean-Michel Corillion and Isabelle Coulon

References

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