Alphonse Maille

Alphonse Maille (1813, Rouen – 30 September 1865, Paris) was a French botanist.

In Paris, he studied botany under Adrien-Henri de Jussieu and worked on exsiccatae with Timothée Puel.^[1][2] In 1854 he was a founding member of the Société botanique de France.^[3]

During his career he assembled an important herbarium of approximately 1000 packages that contained about 60,000 species.^[2] After his death, botanist Jean-Louis Kralik published a catalog of Maille's collections as "Catalogue Des Reliquiae Mailleanae" (1869) ^[4] and distributed his specimens as exsiccata Reliquiae Mailleanae.^[5]

In 1842 the grass genus Maillea (synonym Phleum, family Poaceae) was named in his honor by Filippo Parlatore.^[6][7]