Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard

Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard, name sometimes given as Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard-Briau (30 October 1873 – 29 December 1927) was a French pharmacist and botanist.[1]

Plaque of Charles-Joseph Pitard in the "Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo".

In 1899 he obtained his doctorate in natural sciences at the University of Bordeaux, later serving as a professor at the school of medicine in Tours. He conducted botanical and exploratory investigations in the Canary Islands (1904–06), Tunisia (1907–10 & 1913) and Morocco (1911–13). Many of his plant collections were sent to herbaria in Geneva and Paris.[2][3]

He was the taxonomic authority of numerous botanical taxa. The genus Pitardia (Batt. ex Pit.) is named in his honor,[3] as are plants with the specific epithets of pitardii and pitardiana.[4][5]

Published works
  • Les Iles Canaries. Flore de l'Archipel (1908) – The Canary Islands, flora of the archipelago (with Louis Proust, 1878–1959).
  • Contribution à l'étude de la Flore du Maroc (1931) – Contribution to the study of Moroccan flora.[2]

Pitard also made significant contributions to the "Flore générale de L'Indo-Chine" (General flora of Indochina).[6]

References
  1. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Volume 34. Pages 125-128. 1928.
  2. JSTOR Global Plants Pitard, Charles-Joseph Marie (1873-1927), biography
  3. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  4. Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored by Lorraine Harrison.
  5. Etymological Dictionary of Grasses by Harold T. Clifford, Peter D. Bostock
  6. WorldCat Title Flore Générale de L'Indo-Chine
  7. IPNI.  Pit.
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