Édouard Timbal-Lagrave, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Grisolles, Occitania, France
About Édouard Timbal-Lagrave
- Édouard-Pierre-Marguerite Timbal-Lagrave (4 March 1819, Grisolles – 17 March 1888, Toulouse) was a French pharmacist and botanist.
- He specialized in the flora of southwestern France, including the Pyrénées and Corbières mountains.He studied chemistry and pharmacy in Toulouse and Montpellier, subsequently obtaining the degree of pharmacist 1rst class.
- During his career he worked as a pharmacist in Toulouse and served as a substitute professor at the local École de médecine et de pharmacie.
- In 1854 he became a member of the Société botanique de France.In 1871 the plant genus Timbalia (family Rosaceae) was named in his honor by Dominique Clos.
- Reportedly, many of the plants that he described were based on minor local differences, and as such, were later reduced to intraspecific rankings.
- His herbarium, as well as specimens collected by his son Albert Timbal-Lagrave, is housed at the Jardin botanique Henri Gaussen (TL) in Toulouse.
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