Lucile Allorge (née Boiteau; 25 October 1937 – 29 August 2023) was a Madagascar-born French botanist.
Biography Lucile Boiteau was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on 25 October 1937. Her father, Pierre Boiteau, was the founder and director of the Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza. Allorge held a doctorate in botanical sciences. Allorge was a member of many learned societies, including the Société botanique de France where she won the 2011 Prix de Coincy. In 1968, she joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). An honorary attaché at the National Museum of Natural History, France (MNHN), she had carried out numerous missions in French Guiana, Madagascar, the Philippines, Venezuela and Malaysia. Allorge had published more than 100 scientific articles. She had been named Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar. In 2007, she was elected to the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer as a corresponding member of the 4th section. She was a member of the Société des explorateurs français. Allorge died on 29 August 2023, at the age of 85.
Eponymy Liliaceae Aloe lucile-allorgeae Rauh Crassulaceae Kalanchoe lucile-allorgei Rauh & Mangeldorf Buthidae Tityobuthus lucileae
Awards and honours Prix de Coincy, 2011 Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar
Selected works Lucile Allorge, Plantes de Madagascar : atlas. Plaissan : MUSEO (1st ed. 2008), 2017 ISBN 978-2-37375-025-6, 2-37375-025-2 Lucile Allorge (collaborator), Je sais utiliser mes huiles essentielles. Paris : Rue de l’échiquier, 2016 Collective work under the direction of Lucile Allorge and Thomas Haevermans, Namoroka : mission à Madagascar. Toulouse : Privat; Paris : Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2015 Yves Delange, Yves-Marie Allain, Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Lucile Allorge, Les serres : le génie architectural au service des plantes. Arles : Actes Sud, 2013. Régine Rosenthal, Lucile Allorge, Jean-Noël Burte, Christian Messier, Origines : les forêts primaires dans le monde. Toulouse : Éditions Privat, 2012 Lucile Allorge-Boiteau and Maxime Allorge, Faune et flore de Madagascar. Paris : Karthala, 2011 Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, Régine Rosenthal, Madagascar : l'Eden fragile : biodiversité. Toulouse : Éditions Privat, 2010 Lucile Allorge, Plantes de Madagascar : atlas. Paris : Ulmer, 2008 Lucile Allorge, La fabuleuse odyssée des plantes : les botanistes voyageurs, les jardins des plantes, les herbiers. Paris : JC Lattès, 2003 (prix Émile Gallé) Suzanne Mollet and Lucile Allorge, Histoire du Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza Éditions Alzieu, Grenoble, 2000 Pierre Boiteau, Marthe Boiteau and Lucile Allorge, Dictionnaire des noms malgaches des végétaux Éditions Alzieu. Grenoble. 1999 Pierre Boiteau, Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, Kalanchoe (Crassulacées) de Madagascar : systématique, écophysiologie et phytochimie. Paris : Karthala, 1995 Pierre Boiteau and Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, Plantes médicinales de Madagascar. Paris : Karthala, 1993 Scientific direction of the republication of l'illustration des genres by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, 1000 plates, 10 volumes. Paris : Éditions Amarca, 1989. Translation into Spanish by Liber Ediciones, 1995. Lucile Allorge, Monographie des Apocynacées - Tabernaemontanoïdées américaines. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, (Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sér. B – Botanique (1950-1992); 30). 1985.
Exhibitions Botanical passions: naturalists travelers at the time of the great discoveries: exhibition, Ploézal, Domaine départemental de la Roche Jagu, 7 June-9 November 2008. Rennes: Ouest-France, 2008
Filmography Sur la piste de Wallace, expedition to the Philippines in January 2000 under the direction of Patrice Franceschi. DVD. Les sortilèges de l’île rouge Madagascar, Ankarana, in November 2001, director Alain Tixier, Ushuaïa Nicolas Hulot, DVD. Le labyrinthe secret de Namoroka, directors Jean-Michel Corillion and Isabelle Coulon
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