Timothée Puel

Jean Jacques Timothée Puel (August 22, 1813 January 28, 1890) was a French physician and botanist.[1]

A practicing physician in Paris, he was a founding member of the Société botanique de France (1854).[2]

He is known for his investigations of flora native to the département of Lot, of which he published Catalogue des plantes qui croissent dans le département du Lot. Also, he issued a series of exsiccatae called Herbier du Lot.[3] The genus Puelia (family Gramineae) was named in his honor by Adrien René Franchet.[4]

Selected works

References

  1. Birth and death recoords. Archives of Departement of Lot and Paris, respectively.
  2. Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
  3. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  4. M-Q (Volume 3 of CRC world dictionary of plant names: common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology) by Umberto Quattrocchi
  5. WorldCat Search publications
  6. "Author Query for 'Puel'". International Plant Names Index.


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