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About Marc Antoine Timeroy
- Marc Antoine Timeroy (22 August 1793, La Frette, Isère – 13 November 1856, Lyon) was a French botanist. A bookkeeper by trade, he was educated in botany by a Lyon pharmacist named Thevenin.
- Timeroy is remembered for his intensive investigations of flora in the vicinity of Lyon. From 1846 until his death he was a member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon, from which he served as a botanical curator in 1852–55.
- From 1849 to 1855 he was a member of the Société d'agriculture de Lyon.
- After his death, his biography was composed by Étienne Mulsant ("Notice sur Marc-Antoine Timeroy", F.
- Dumoulin 1859).In 1860 the genus Timeroyea (syn: Pisonia) was named after him by Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier.
- Also, plants with the specific epithet of timeroyi are named in his honor, an example being Galium timeroyi.
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