La Fuente de Los Sabios - Charles-Joseph Pitard

Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard, name sometimes given as Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard-Briau (30 October 1873 – 29 December 1927) was a French

pharmacist A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a healthcare professional who prepares, controls and distributes medicines and provides advice and instructi ...

and

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. In 1899 he obtained his doctorate in natural sciences at the University of Bordeaux, later serving as a professor at the school of medicine in Tours. He conducted botanical and exploratory investigations in the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

(1904–06), Tunisia (1907–10 & 1913) and Morocco (1911–13). Many of his plant collections were sent to herbaria in Geneva and Paris.JSTOR Global Plants
Pitard, Charles-Joseph Marie (1873-1927), biographyBHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications He was the taxonomic authority of numerous botanical taxa. About 525 names have been published. Such as ''Aichryson mollii'' Pit., Iles Canaries 189. The genus ''Pitardia'' ( Batt. ex Pit.), now classed as a

synonym A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are all ...

of '' Nepeta'' , was named in his honor. Then in 2003, Tirveng. published ''

Pitardella ''Pitardella'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae. It is native to Himalaya, Cambodia, Nepal, Thailand in Indo-China. The genus name of ''Pitardella'' is in honour of Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard (1873–1927), an E ...

'', a genus of flowering plants from Indo-China, belonging to the family Rubiaceae. Also named in his honour, are plants with the specific epithets of ''pitardii'' (about 27) and ''pitardiana'' (about 7). Such as '' Beaumontia pitardii'' , and also ''

Poa pitardiana ''Poa'' is a genus of about 570 species of grasses, native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres. Common names include meadow-grass (mainly in Europe and Asia), bluegrass (mainly in North America), tussock (some New Zealand species), a ...

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Published works

* ''Les Iles Canaries. Flore de l'Archipel'' (1908) – The Canary Islands, flora of the archipelago (with Louis Proust, 1878–1959). * ''Contribution à l'étude de la Flore du Maroc'' (1931) – Contribution to the study of Moroccan flora. Pitard also made significant contributions to the "''Flore générale de L'Indo-Chine''" (General flora of Indochina).WorldCat Title
Flore Générale de L'Indo-Chine

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pitard, Charles-Joseph Marie 1872 births 1928 deaths 20th-century French botanists French pharmacists University of Bordeaux alumni 19th-century French botanists