Valentine Allorge

Russian-french botanist and bryologist (1888-1977).

Valia (Valentine) Selitsky Allorge (1888–1977) was a Russian-French botanist, phycologist, and bryologist known for studying the flora of the Pyrenees region. Allorge's most important work was on the bryoflora of the Bussaco forest, Portugal, and she also spent several years cataloguing the bryophytes of Spain. The standard author abbreviation V.Allorge is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. She was born in the Russian Empire and emigrated to Nice in France before the start of World War I. She studied in Switzerland and then at the University of Paris. At