How to Pronounce Alfred Huet du Pavillon
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Jan 01, 1829 Blain, Pays de la Loire, France Died on 18 Nov 1907 (aged 78)
French botanist
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About Alfred Huet Du Pavillon
- Alfred Huet du Pavillon (January 1829 in Blain, Loire-Atlantique – 1907 in Frohsdorf) was a French botanist.
- His brother, Édouard Huet du Pavillon (1819-1908), with whom he often collaborated, was also a botanist. He spent his childhood in Switzerland, later studying under botanist Alphonse de Candolle.
- From 1852 to 1856 he was curator of de Candolle's herbarium.
- In the 1850s he took a series of botanical expeditions to the Pyrénées, Armenia, Italy (including Sicily) and Sardinia.
- In Italy and Sicily, he was accompanied by Édouard Huet du Pavillon.With his brother, he amassed an impressive herbarium, and issued numerous series of exsiccatae.
- In 1856 Pierre Edmond Boissier introduced the genus name Huetia in honor of the Huet brothers.
