{{Short description|French botanist (1873–1958)}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | landscape = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1873|08|11}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|10|02|1873|08|11}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship = French | fields = Botany | workplaces = | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Flora of Madagascar | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = H.Perrier | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | father = | mother = | relatives = | signature = | signature_type = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} thumb|Illustration from ''Flore de Madagascar et des Comores'' '''Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒozɛf maʁi ɑ̃ʁi alfʁɛd pɛʁje də la bati}}; 11 August 1873 – 2 October 1958) was a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar.
He is the nephew of Eugène Pierre Perrier de la Bâthie, (1825-1916), another botanist,<ref>{{cite web |title=Perrier de la Bâthie, Eugène Pierre (1825-1916) |url=https://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do?id=7534-1 |publisher=ipni.org |access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> who also collected plants with him.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Perrier de la Bâthie, Joseph Marie Henry Alfred (1873-1958) |url=http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000006443 |publisher=jstor.org |access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref>
He delineated the two chief floristic provinces of Madagascar (''see'' Ecoregions of Madagascar). Some of his works include ''La végétation malgache'' (1921), ''Biogéographie de plantes de Madagascar'' (1936), and numerous volumes of the series ''Flore de Madagascar et des Comores'' (1946-1952).
==Honours== The orchid genus ''Neobathiea'' (originally ''Bathiea'') was named in his honor, as was the indriid lemur Perrier's sifaka (''Propithecus perrieri''). He has other plant genera named in his honour.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> Such as in 1905, botanist Lucien Désiré Joseph Courchet published ''Perriera'', a genus of flowering plants from Madagascar, belonging to the family Simaroubaceae.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Perriera'' Courchet {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38222-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=19 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Then in 1915, botanist Hochr. published ''Perrierophytum'', a genus of flowering plants from Mozambique and Madagascar, belonging to the family Malvaceae.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Perrierophytum'' Hochr. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26021-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=19 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> In 1924, A.Camus published ''Perrierbambus'',a bamboo in the grass family.<ref>Camus, Aimée Antoinette. 1924. ''Perrierbambus'', genre nouveau de Bambusées malgaches. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 71: 699-700</ref> In 1951, Alberto Judice Leote Cavaco published ''Perrierodendron'' is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Sarcolaenaceae.<ref>{{Tropicos | 17 | 40004991 | Perrierodendron | | | accessdate = 1 Jan 2017 }}</ref> Then finally in 1978, (A.Berger) H.Ohba published ''Perrierosedum'', succulent plants of the family Crassulaceae.<ref name="Kew">{{cite web|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Crassulaceae/Perrierosedum/|title=Perrierosedum|work=Kew Plant List|publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden|access-date=7 October 2013}}</ref>
Several species of Madagascar plants were also named for him, including ''Adenia perrieri'',<ref>{{cite web |title=''Adenia perrieri'' Clavaud {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:674151-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=11 November 2021 |language=en}}</ref> ''Adansonia perrieri'' (or Perrier's baobab),<ref>G.E. Wickens {{google books|Vu9ZX3NWPYIC|The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia|page=259}}</ref> ''Erythrina perrieri'', ''Ensete perrieri'', ''Euphorbia perrieri'', ''Gereaua perrieri'', ''Jumelleanthus perrieri'' <small>Hochr.</small>,<ref>{{cite web |title=''Jumelleanthus perrieri'' Hochr. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:561037-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=6 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref> ''Melanophylla perrieri'', ''Podocarpus perrieri'', ''Takhtajania perrieri'', (originally named ''Bubbia perrieri'') and ''Xerosicyos perrieri''.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Xerosicyos perrieri'' Humbert {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:294395-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=11 November 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
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