Pierre Viala

{{Short description|French scientist (1859–1936)}} {{Expand French|topic=bio|Pierre Viala|date=January 2012}} [[File:Pierre Viala.jpg|thumb|right|Pierre Viala]] '''Pierre Viala''' (24 September 1859 in [[Lavérune]] – 11 February 1936) was a French scientist.

In 1901–1910 he and [[Victor Vermorel]] published ''[[Ampélographie. Traité général de viticulture]]'', a seven-volume [[ampelography]] of 3,200 pages describing 5,200 [[grape variety|grape varieties]].

He has been honoured in the naming of 2 taxa of fungi;<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref> ''[[Vialaeaceae|Vialaea]]'' by [[Pier Andrea Saccardo]] in 1896 (Vialaeaceae family) ''Vialina'' by [[Mario Curzi]] in 1935, which is now a synonym of ''[[Phoma]]'' {{Au|Sacc., 1880}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Vialina'' Curzi, 1935 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7253784 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=4 December 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

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