Jean Marie Bosser

{{Short description|French botanist and agricultural engineer}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | name =  | image =Jean Bosser 1.jpg | alt =  | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date ={{Birth date|1922|12|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date ={{Death date and age|2013|12|06|1922|12|23|df=yes}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}

'''Jean Marie Bosser'''<ref>[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do?id=1009-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditAdvAuthorSearch.do%3Ffind_abbreviation%3DBosser%26find_surname%3D%26find_isoCountry%3D%26find_forename%3D%26output_format%3Dnormal Entry at IPNI]</ref> (23 December 1922 – 6 December 2013<ref>Obituary Jean Bosser In: ''The Orchid Review'' 122 (1305):p 13. March 2014</ref>), sometimes listed as '''Jean-Michel Bosser'''<ref>[http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000000933 JSTOR entry]</ref> was a French botanist and agricultural engineer who worked extensively in Madagascar and Mauritius.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hermans |first=Claire |title=Flore des Mascareignes, 170. Orchidées |last2=Hermans |first2=Johan |last3=Boudier |first3=Catherine |publisher=IRD Editions |year=2023 |isbn=9782709929578 |volume=1 |publication-place=Marseille |pages=9–19 |language=French |chapter=Jean Bosser. Une vie parmi les fleurs. 1922-2013}}</ref>

Bosser was a researcher at the Laboratoire de Phanérogamie at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. From 1962 to 1963 he was the director of ORSTOM ('''O'''ffice de la '''r'''echerche '''s'''cientifique et '''t'''echnique '''o'''utre-'''m'''er, now Institut de recherche pour le développement) in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Together with Thérésien Cadet and Joseph Guého he contributed to the series ''Flore des Mascareignes'' published by the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), the Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute (MSIRI), and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew since 1976 and is a comprehensive work on the flora of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues. Bosser described numerous new species from Madagascar and the Mascarenes, such as ''Bulbophyllum labatii'', ''Cynanchum staubii'' and ''Cynanchum guehoi''. As of June 2014 the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) lists 318 taxa (including many orchids)<ref>[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_authorAbbrev=Bosser List of plant taxa described by Bosser]</ref> described by Bosser either as sole author or as a co-author.

== Publications (selected) == * 2000. ''Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar et des Mascareignes. XXIX. Révision de la section Kainochilus du genre Bulbophyllum''. Adansonia 22(2) 167–182 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422202838/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a00n2a1.pdf pdf online] * 2000. Bosser JM; D Florens. ''Syzygium guehoi ( Myrtaceae ), nouvelle espèce de l'île Maurice''. Adansonia 22(2) 183–186 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422202854/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a00n2a2.pdf pdf online] * 2001. Bosser JM; P Cribb. ''Trois nouvelles espèces de Bulbophyllum ( Orchidaceae ) de Madagascar''. Adansonia 23(1) 129–135 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422203438/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a01n1a6.pdf pdf online] * 2002. Bosser JM. ''Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXII. Un Cynorkis nouveau des Comores et un Eulophia nouveau de La Réunion''. Adansonia 24(1) 21–25 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422204336/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a02n1a2.pdf pdf online] * 2002. la Croix, I; JM Bosser; PJ Cribb. ''The genus Disperis ( Orchidaceae ) in Madagascar, the Comores, the Mascarenes & the Seychelles ''. Adansonia 24(1) 55–87 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422204503/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a02n1a6.pdf pdf online] * 2002. Bosser JM. ''Une nouvelle espèce de Turraea ( Meliaceae ) des Mascareignes. Localisation de T. thouarsiana et identité de T. casimiriana ''. Adansonia 24(1) 113–116 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422204653/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a02n1a10.pdf pdf online] * 2002. Bosser JM; J Guého. ''Deux nouvelles espèces de Pandanus ( Pandanaceae ) de l'île Maurice''. Adansonia 24(2) 239–242 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422202926/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a02n2a11.pdf pdf online][ * 2003. Bosser JM; PJ Cribb. ''Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXIV. Bathiorchis, nouveau genre monotypique de Madagascar''. Adansonia 25(2) 229–231 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422204041/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a03n2a8.pdf pdf online] * 2004. Bosser, JM. ''Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXIII'' Adansonia 26(1) 53–61 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422202542/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/2135_a04n1a3.pdf pdf online] * 2005. Bosser, JM; R Rabevohitra. ''Espèces nouvelles dans le genre Dalbergia (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae) à Madagascar''. Adansonia 27(2) 209–216 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422205443/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/6852_a05n2a3.pdf pdf online] * 2006. Bosser, JM. ''Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXV. Description d'un Oeceoclades nouveau de Madagascar, et notes sur trois genres nouveaux pour les Mascareignes''. Adansonia 28(1) 45–54 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422204720/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/8186_a06n1a2.pdf pdf online] * 2012. Baider, C; FBV Florens; F Rakotoarivelo; J Bosser; T. Pailler. ''Two new records of Jumellea (Orchidaceae) for Mauritius (Mascarene Islands) and its conservation status''. Phytotaxa 52: 21–28 [http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2012/f/p00052p028f.pdf abstract online]

=== Books === * 2007. Hermans, J; C Hermans; D Du Puy; P Cribb; JM Bosser. ''Orchids of Madagascar''. Ed. Royal Botanic Kew 398 pp. {{ISBN|1-84246-133-8}}

== Dedicated species == {{div col|colwidth=350px}} * (Acanthaceae) ''Anisostachya bosseri'' Benoist<ref>Bull. Soc. Bot. France 111: 428. 1965 (IK)</ref> * (Aizoaceae) ''Delosperma bosserianum'' Marais<ref>Kew Bull. 33(3): 521 1979 (IK)</ref> * (Asphodelaceae) ''Aloe bosseri'' J.-B.Castillon<ref>Adansonia sér. 3, 22(1): 135. 2000 (IK)</ref> * (Arecaceae) ''Dypsis bosseri'' J.Dransf.<ref>in J. Dransfield & H. Beentje, Palms of Madagascar 393 1995 (IK)</ref> (long known only by the holotype collected by Bosser in December 1962 until its rediscovery in 1999) * (Asclepiadaceae) ''Ceropegia bosseri'' Rauh & Buchloh<ref>Kakteen And. Sukk. xvi. 226 1965 (IK)</ref> * (Asclepiadaceae) ''Secamone bosseri'' Klack.<ref>Opera Bot. 112: 82 1992 (IK)</ref> * (Begoniaceae) ''Begonia bosseri'' Keraudren<ref>in Fl. Madag. Fam. 144: 32 1983 (IK)</ref> * (Boraginaceae) ''Hilsenbergia bosseri'' J.S.Mill.<ref>Adansonia 25(2): 162 2003</ref> * (Cucurbitaceae) ''Ampelosicyos bosseri'' (Keraudren) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner<ref>Taxon 60(1): 133 2011</ref> * (Cyperaceae) ''Trichoschoenus bosseri'' J.Raynal<ref>Adansonia sér. 2, 8: 225. 1968 (IK)</ref> * (Dioscoreaceae) ''Dioscorea bosseri'' Haigh & Wilkin<ref>Kew Bull. 60(2): 276 (273–281; figs.) 2005</ref> * (Ericaceae) ''Erica bosseri'' Dorr<ref>Adansonia sér. 3, 21(1): 79. 1999 (IK)</ref> * (Eriocaulaceae) ''Paepalanthus bosseri'' (Morat) T.Stützel<ref>Pl. Syst. Evol. 156(3–4): 138. 1987 (IK)</ref> * (Euphorbiaceae) ''Euphorbia bosseri'' Leandri<ref>Adansonia sér. 2, 5: 212. 1965 (IK)</ref> * (Lamiaceae) ''Clerodendrum bosseri'' Capuron<ref>Adansonia sér. 2, 12(1): 45. 1972 (IK)</ref> * (Lamiaceae) ''Plectranthus bosseri'' Hedge<ref>Fl. Madagasc. fam. 175: 214. 1998 (IK)</ref> * (Leguminosae) ''Crotalaria bosseri'' M.Peltier<ref>Adansonia sér. 2, 10: 381. 1970 (IK)</ref> * (Leguminosae) ''Indigofera bosseri'' Du Puy & Labat<ref>Novon 4(3): 259. 1994 (IK)</ref> * (Menyanthaceae) ''Nymphoides bosseri'' A.Raynal<ref>Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 10: 132 1971 (IK)</ref> * (Monimiaceae) ''Tambourissa bosseri'' Jérémie & Lorence<ref>Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia Sér. 4, 13(3–4): 139 1991 (IK)</ref> * (Montiniaceae) ''Grevea bosseri'' Letouzey<ref>Adansonia sér. 2, 17(2): 120. 1977 (IK)</ref> * (Myrtaceae) ''Eugenia bosseri'' J.Guého & A.J.Scott<ref>Kew Bull. 34(3): 475 1980 (IK)</ref> * (Orchidaceae) ''Angraecum bosseri'' Senghas<ref>Orchidee (Hamburg) 24(5): 193. 1973 (IK)</ref> * (Orchidaceae) ''Bilabrella bosseriana'' (Szlach. & Olszewski) Szlach. & Kras-Lap.<ref>Richardiana 3(3): 139 2003</ref> * (Orchidaceae) ''Bulbophyllum bosseri'' K.Lemcke<ref>Orchidee (Hamburg) 50(6): 663. 1999 (IK)</ref> * (Orchidaceae) ''Disperis bosseri'' la Croix & P.J.Cribb<ref>Adansonia sér. 3, 24(1): 82. 2002 null (IK)</ref> * (Orchidaceae) ''Jumellea bosseri'' Pailler<ref>Orchidophile (Asnières) 183: 265 (263–267; fig.) 2009</ref> * (Portulacaceae) ''Talinella bosseri'' Appleq.<ref>Adansonia ser. 3, 27(1): 58 (51; figs. 5–6) 2005</ref> * (Pteridaceae) ''Pteris bosseri'' (Tardieu) Christenh.<ref>Phytotaxa 19: 21. 2011</ref> * (Rubiaceae) ''Canthium bosseri'' Cavaco<ref>Portugal. Acta Biol., B 11(3–4): 224. 1972 [1970–1971 publ. 1972] (IK)</ref> * (Rubiaceae) ''Chassalia bosseri'' Verdc.<ref>Kew Bull. 38(2): 316 1983 (IK)</ref> * (Rubiaceae) ''Peponidium bosseri'' (Cavaco) Razafim., Lantz & B.Bremer<ref>Novon 17(4): 517. 2007</ref> * (Sterculiaceae) ''Acropogon bosseri'' Morat & Chalopin<ref>Adansonia 27(2): 261 (−263, 265; figs. 4, 6) 2005</ref> * (Vitaceae) ''Cissus bosseri'' Desc.<ref>Bull. Soc. Bot. France 112: 470. 1966 (IK)</ref> {{div col end}}

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