Alexandre Noël Charles Acloque
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Alexandre Noël Charles Acloque (1871–1941) was a French botanist who was an expert in
lichen A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...
s. Acloque was broadly interested in
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and wrote books on the flora and fauna (insects) of France.


Selected works

* ''Les Champignons'' (mushrooms), 1892 * ''Les Lichens'' (lichens), 1893 * ''Flore de France'' Flora of France 1894 * ''Faune de France'' Fauna of France 1896–1900) ** ''Mammifères'' (mammals) ** ''Oiseaux'' (birds) ** ''Poissons, Reptiles, Batraciens, Protochordés'' ish, Reptiles, Amphibians, Protochordats 1 vol., in-18 de 210 p., with 294 figures ** ''Coléoptères'' (beetles), 1 vol., in-18 de 466 p., with 1052 figures * ''Les insectes nuisibles'' nsect Pests 1897 * ''Scènes de la vie des insectes'' cenes from the Life of Insects 1897 * ''Flores régionales de France'' egional Floras of France including the
French Alps The French Alps are the portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France, located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions. While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others, such a ...
, the
Pyrénées The Pyrenees are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. They extend nearly from their union with the Cantabrian Mountains to Cap de Creus on the Mediterranean coast, reaching a maximum elevation of at the peak of Aneto. F ...
, Alsace-Lorraine, the
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, western France, and
Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...


References

Botanists with author abbreviations 1871 births 1941 deaths 20th-century French botanists 19th-century French botanists French lichenologists {{France-botanist-stub