Jean-Baptiste Barla

Jean-Baptiste Barla
Agaricus plate from Les Champignons De La Province De Nice

Jean-Baptiste Barla (3 May 1817, Nice – 6 November 1896) was a French botanist.[1]

Barla was a man of independent means and dedicated himself to investigate the fungi and orchids of the South of France.[2] "Cette végétation exceptionelle, doit évidemment sa richesse et sa variété à la configuration topographique, toute particulière, du bassin des Alpes-Maritimes. Dans ce pays favorisé par la nature, croissent la plupart des orchidées de France, d'Italie, d'Allemange, etc." (Introduction to illustrée de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes).

In 1846 with Jean Baptiste Vérany (1800–1865) he founded the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice where wax casts of thousands of mushrooms he made or had made were exhibited.

The standard author abbreviation Barla is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]
  1. ^ Fredj, Gaston; Meinardi, Michel (2007). L'ange & l'orchidée: Risso, Vérany & Barla : une lignée de savants de renommée mondiale à Nice au XIXe siècle (in French). SERRE EDITEUR. pp. 49–63. ISBN 978-2-86410-490-2.
  2. ^ Raffaelli, Mauro (2009). Il museo di storia naturale dell'Università di Firenze. Ediz. italiana e inglese (in Italian). Firenze University Press. pp. 245–249. ISBN 978-88-8453-955-7.
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Barla.