Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie was a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar. He is the nephew of Eugène Pierre Perrier de la Bâthie, , another botanist, who also collected plants with him.He delineated the two chief floristic provinces of Madagascar . Some of his works include La végétation malgache , Biogéographie de plantes de Madagascar , and numerous volumes of the series Flore de Madagascar et des Comores . The orchid genus Neobathiea was named in his honor, as was the indriid lemur Perrier's sifaka . Several species of Madagascar plants were named for him, including Adenia perrieri, Erythrina perrieri, E...
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