Louis Jules Ernest Malinvaud, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Louis Jules Ernest Malinvaud
- Louis Jules Ernest Malinvaud (26 September 1836, in Paris – 22 September 1913) was a French physician and botanist. Beginning in 1860, he studied medicine in Limoges and later Paris (from 1863).
- After serving as a doctor during the Franco-Prussian War, he left the medical practice in order to concentrate his energies towards botany.
- As a botanist he collaborated with Pierre Marie Édouard Lamy de la Chapelle (1804–1886).In 1861 he became a member of the Société botanique de France.
- The plant genus Malinvaudia (subfamily Asclepiadaceae) was named after him by Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier (1834-1884).
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