Casimir Arvet-Touvet

Jean Maurice Casimir Arvet-Touvet is a Botaniste French, born in 1841 with Gières and died in 1913.

Wire of wine grower, there begins his studies with the small seminar of the Rondo with Grenoble then quickly gives up studies of right to assist his mother remained widowed on the family exploitation. Botanist over his spare time, it acquires a great knowledge of the flora of the Dauphiné which it presents in 1871 in a test on the plants of Dauphine the .

Starting from 1880, it will devote its studies to the kind Hieracium . It will become one of the best world specialists in the hawkweeds. In collaboration with Gaston Gauthier (1841-1911), he will study the Pyrenean hawkweeds and of the Iberian peninsula.

After the death of this last it will only publish, in 1913, Hieraciorum praesertim Galliae and Hispanica systematicus .

Believing, its designs will be marked by the essentialism contrary to the transformism and of the evolutionism. He is the author of many species of the kind Hieracium and a species of Fabaceae: Oxytropis amethystea .

Source

Benoit Dayrat (2003). Botanists and Flora of France, three centuries of discoveries. scientific Publications of the national Natural history museum of natural history, collection Files : 690 p.

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