Jean-Marie Delavay

French botanist (1834-1895).

Père Jean-Marie Delavay (28 December 1834 – 31 December 1895) was a French missionary, explorer and botanist. He was perhaps the first Western explorer of the region which is now encompassed by the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas. Delavay was born in Les Gets, Haute-Savoie, in 1834. As a missionary for Missions Etrangères de Paris (Foreign Missions of Paris) he was sent to China in 1867, serving first in Guangdong, then moving to north-western Yunnan. While in France in 1881, on a break from his duties, Delavay met the natural history collector and fellow missionary Père Armand

Abbreviations: Delavay
Occupations: scientific collector, missionary, explorer, botanical collector, botanist, Catholic priest
Citizenships: France
Languages: French
Dates: 1834-12-28T00:00:00Z – 1895-12-31T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Les Gets
Direct attributions: 1 plant, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 3 plants, 0 fungi

1 plant attributed, 2 plants contributed to3 plants:

Rhododendron vialii Delavay & Franch. 1895
plant species in the ericaceae family
Rhododendron vialii (红马银花) is a rhododendron species native to Laos, Vietnam, and southern Yunnan, China, where it grows at altitudes of 1,200–1,800 m (3,900–5,900 ft). It is an evergreen shrub growing to 2–4.5 m (6.6–14.8 ft) in height, with leaves that are lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 4–9 by 1.8–4 cm in size. The flowers are dark red.
Primula vialii (Orchid Primrose) Delavay ex Franch. 1891
perennial and medicinal plant species in the primulaceae family
Primula vialii, Vial's primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae, originating from wet meadows, or near water in high valleys of SW Sichuan and northern Yunnan in southern China.
Paeonia delavayi ssp. lutea (Delavay ex Franch.) B.A.Shen 2001
plant subspecies in the paeoniaceae family
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