Alire Raffeneau Delile
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Alire Raffeneau Delile (Jan. 23, 1778 to July 5, 1850} was a french botanist.
He participated in Napoleon Bonaparte's Egypt Campaign where he described Lotus and Papyrus. He is the author of the botanical sections of Travel in Lower and Upper Egypt by Dominique Vivant.[1]
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- Source: French language wikipedia
- ^ Author Details: Delile,Alire Raffeneau (1778-1850). IPNI.
- ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.