Maurice Choisy

{{Short description|French botanist and lichenologist}} '''Maurice Gustave Benoît Choisy''' (29 June 1897 – 19 June 1966) was a French [[mycologist]] and [[lichenologist]]. He was a member of the [[Société botanique de France|Botanical Society of France]], the [[Société mycologique de France|Mycological Society of France]], and the {{ill|Linnean Society of Lyon|fr|Société linnéenne de Lyon}}. He was president of the botanical section of the latter society from 1949 to 1950.<ref name="Grumann 1974"/>

Species named after Choisy include ''[[Dermatocarpon choisyi]]'' {{small|D.D.Awasthi (1965)}};<ref name="Awasthi 1965"/> ''[[Haematomma choisyi]]'' {{small|Werner (1932)}};<ref name="Werner 1932"/> and ''[[Lecidea choisyi]]'' {{small|Werner (1932)}}.<ref name="Werner 1932b"/>

==Selected publications== *{{cite journal |last1=Choisy |first1=M.G.B. |year=1928 |title=Existe-t-il un nouveau type de spores en Mycologie? |journal=Bulletin de la Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=71–74 |language=fr |jstor=20791544}} *{{cite journal |author-mask=7 |last1=Choisy |first1=M.G.B. |year=1931 |title=Lichens nouveaux |journal=Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France |volume=78 |issue=4 |pages=453–460 |language=fr |doi=10.1080/00378941.1931.10832910|doi-access=free }} *{{cite journal |author-mask=7 |last1=Choisy |first1=M.G.B. |year=1931 |title=La classification des Gyrophoracés |journal=Bulletin de la Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique |volume=64 |issue=1 |pages=119–123 |language=fr |jstor= 20791639}} *{{cite journal |author-mask=7 |last1=Choisy |first1=M.G.B. |year=1949 |title=Catalogue des lichens de la région lyonnaise [1]. (suite: 1–16) |journal=Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon |volume=18 |issue=6 |pages=105–120 |language=fr |doi=10.3406/linly.1949.8557}} {{botanist|M.Choisy}}

==See also== * [[:Category:Taxa named by Maurice Choisy]]

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Awasthi 1965">{{cite book |last1=Awasthi |first1=D.D. |title=Catalogue of the Lichens from India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Ceylon |series=Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia |volume=17 |publisher=J. Cramer |page=48 |isbn=978-3-7682-5417-5}}</ref>

<ref name="Grumann 1974">{{cite book |last1=Grumann |first1=Vitus |year=1974 |title=Biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch der Lichenologie |publisher=J. Cramer |pages=270–271 |language=de}}</ref>

<ref name="Werner 1932">{{cite journal |last1=Werner |first1=R.G. |year=1932 |title=Contribution á la flore cryptogamique du Maroc VII |journal=Revue Bryologique et Lichénologique |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=210–228 |language=fr}}</ref>

<ref name="Werner 1932b">{{cite journal |last1=Werner |first1=R.G. |year=1932 |title=Contribution á la flore cryptogamique du Maroc. VI |journal=Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc |volume=12 |pages=156–163 |language=fr}}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Choisy, Maurice}} [[Category:1897 births]] [[Category:1966 deaths]] [[Category:French mycologists]] [[Category:French lichenologists]] [[Category:20th-century French scientists]]