Hybridizer Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé (1864-1918)

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Also known as Monseigneur Hector Léveillé. Botanist and Clegyman (Prelate of the Pontifical household), he was professor of natural history at the College of Pondicherry and traveled to India (1887-1891). He founded the magazine Le Monde des Plantes (1892), the Académie internationale de géographie botanique. Was member of Accademia Pontificia dei Nuovi Lincei

Species

• 1905: 'Cavaleriei'.

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