Henri Lucien Jumelle

{{Short description|French botanist}}

Henri Lucien Jumelle (25 November 1866 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir Department, France – 6 December 1935 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône Department, France) was a French botanist.{{cite web|url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=2623|title=Index of Botanists - Jumelle, Henri Lucien|date=21 May 2009|work=Harvard University Herbaria|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=30 January 2014}}

From 1887 to 1894, he worked as a plant physiologist at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris. Afterwards, he was a professor of botany at the Faculté des Sciences in Marseille (1894-1935).[http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000004162 JSTOR Global Plants] Jumelle, Henri Lucien (1866-1935) From 1898 to 1916, he was assistant director, then director of the Musée colonial et du Jardin botanique in Marseille.[http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=119484# Prosopo] Sociétés savantes de France

He held a deep interest in applied botany, publishing numerous treatises on the agricultural aspects of various plants.[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AJumelle%2C+Henri%2C&fq=&dblist=638&start=21&qt=next_page WorldCat Search] published works During his career, he worked closely with botanist Joseph Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie, who sent him botanical material from Madagascar. As a taxonomist, he circumscribed many new species native to Madagascar.

From 1922 to 1935, he was a correspondent-member of the Académie des Sciences (botanical section).