Marie Laure Tardieu Explained

Birth Name:Marie Laure Jacqueline Blot
Birth Date:17 November 1902
Birth Place:Mourmelon-le-Grand, France
Death Place:Paris, France
Resting Place:Cimetière de Villiers-sous-Grez
Fields:Botany
Workplaces:National Museum of Natural History, France
Alma Mater:University of Paris
Author Abbrev Bot:Tardieu
Spouse:Jean Tardieu

Marie Laure Tardieu-Blot (17 November 1902 in Mourmelon-le-Grand  - 23 March 1998 in Paris) was a French pteridologist who worked at the French National Museum of Natural History and is noted for describing over 400 plant species.[1] The genus of ferns Blotiella was named in her honor.[2] She was married to the author Jean Tardieu.[3] [4] [5] [6] She was appointed director of the medical analysis laboratory of the Hanoi hospital in 1928. She joined the phanerogamy laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History in 1932, the same year she became a member of the Botanical Society of France. She was appointed deputy director of the French National Museum of Natural History in 1964. She became director of the laboratory of tropical phanerogamic botany in 1967. She was named honorary director in 1971.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tropicos Person - Tardieu, Marie Laure . www.tropicos.org . 15 February 2019.
  2. Book: Crouch . Neil R. . Ferns of Southern Africa: A Comprehensive Guide . 2012 . Penguin Random House South Africa . 9781431701438 . 15 February 2019 . en.
  3. Book: Limited . Europa Publications . The international who's who . 1974 . Europa Publications . 9780900362729 . 15 February 2019 . en.
  4. Book: Mabberley . D. J. . The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants . 1997 . Cambridge University Press . 9780521414210 . 15 February 2019 . en.
  5. Web site: Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries . kiki.huh.harvard.edu . 15 February 2019 . en.
  6. Tardieu, Marie Laure (1902-) on JSTOR . plants.jstor.org . 15 February 2019 .
  7. Book: Stafleu, Frans A. . Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types . Cowan . Richard S. . 1976 . Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema . 90-313-0224-4 . Utrecht.