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About Charles d'Alleizette
- Aymar Charles d'Alleizette (23 January 1884, in Paris – 9 April 1967) was a French military administrator and botanist. He was a member of the French military from around 1904 to 1942, during which time, he was stationed in Madagascar (1906), Tonkin (1908) and Algeria (1911–22).
- From 1943 to 1948 he worked in the laboratory of phanerogams at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, and afterwards, served as curator of the herbarium at Clermont-Ferrand.Throughout his career, he collected botanical specimens, and his personal herbarium of 55,000 items is now property of the Faculty of Sciences at Clermont-Ferrand.
- He held a particular interest in Orchidaceae native to Europe and northern Africa, and he is credited with providing descriptions of many orchid hybrids.
- The botanical genera Alleizettea and Alleizettella commemorate his name.
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