Claude Casimir Gillet

French botanist
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IntroFrench botanist
A.K.A.Gillet
A.K.A.Gillet
PlacesFrance
wasBiologist Scientist Botanist Mycologist
Work fieldBiology Science
Gender
Male
Birth19 May 1806, Dormans, canton of Dormans, arrondissement of Épernay, Marne
Death1 September 1896Alençon, Orne, Normandy, France (aged 90 years)
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Biography

Claude Casimir Gillet (19 May 1806 in Dormans, department of Marne – 1 September 1896 in Alençon), was a French botanist and mycologist. He initially trained as a medical doctor and veterinarian.

As a veterinarian, he worked for four years in Africa. Around 1853 he developed a passion for mycology, subsequently publishing a number of works on the subject. In 1867 he became a corresponding member of the Société Linnéenne de Normandie.

Gillet was the taxonomic authority of the genera Tubaria (initially named a subgenus of Agaricus by Worthington George Smith) and Microglossum.

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