Jean Marie Bosser

{{Short description|French botanist and agricultural engineer}}

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Jean Marie Bosser[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do?id=1009-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditAdvAuthorSearch.do%3Ffind_abbreviation%3DBosser%26find_surname%3D%26find_isoCountry%3D%26find_forename%3D%26output_format%3Dnormal Entry at IPNI] (23 December 1922 – 6 December 2013Obituary Jean Bosser In: The Orchid Review 122 (1305):p 13. March 2014), sometimes listed as Jean-Michel Bosser[http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000000933 JSTOR entry] was a French botanist and agricultural engineer who worked extensively in Madagascar and Mauritius.{{Cite book |last=Hermans |first=Claire |title=Flore des Mascareignes, 170. Orchidées |last2=Hermans |first2=Johan |last3=Boudier |first3=Catherine |publisher=IRD Editions |year=2023 |isbn=9782709929578 |volume=1 |publication-place=Marseille |pages=9-19 |language=French |chapter=Jean Bosser. Une vie parmi les fleurs. 1922-2013}}

Bosser was a researcher at the Laboratoire de Phanérogamie at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. From 1962 to 1963 he was the director of ORSTOM (Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre-mer, now Institut de recherche pour le développement) in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Together with Thérésien Cadet and Joseph Guého he contributed to the series Flore des Mascareignes published by the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), the Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute (MSIRI), and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew since 1976 and is a comprehensive work on the flora of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues. Bosser described numerous new species from Madagascar and the Mascarenes, such as Bulbophyllum labatii, Cynanchum staubii and Cynanchum guehoi. As of June 2014 the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) lists 318 taxa (including many orchids)[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_authorAbbrev=Bosser List of plant taxa described by Bosser] described by Bosser either as sole author or as a co-author.

Publications (selected)

  • 2000. Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar et des Mascareignes. XXIX. Révision de la section Kainochilus du genre Bulbophyllum. Adansonia 22(2) 167–182 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422202838/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a00n2a1.pdf pdf online]
  • 2000. Bosser JM; D Florens. Syzygium guehoi ( Myrtaceae ), nouvelle espèce de l'île Maurice. Adansonia 22(2) 183–186 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422202854/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a00n2a2.pdf pdf online]
  • 2001. Bosser JM; P Cribb. Trois nouvelles espèces de Bulbophyllum ( Orchidaceae ) de Madagascar. Adansonia 23(1) 129–135 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422203438/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a01n1a6.pdf pdf online]
  • 2002. Bosser JM. Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXII. Un Cynorkis nouveau des Comores et un Eulophia nouveau de La Réunion. Adansonia 24(1) 21–25 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422204336/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a02n1a2.pdf pdf online]
  • 2002. la Croix, I; JM Bosser; PJ Cribb. The genus Disperis ( Orchidaceae ) in Madagascar, the Comores, the Mascarenes & the Seychelles . Adansonia 24(1) 55–87 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422204503/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a02n1a6.pdf pdf online]
  • 2002. Bosser JM. Une nouvelle espèce de Turraea ( Meliaceae ) des Mascareignes. Localisation de T. thouarsiana et identité de T. casimiriana . Adansonia 24(1) 113–116 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422204653/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a02n1a10.pdf pdf online]
  • 2002. Bosser JM; J Guého. Deux nouvelles espèces de Pandanus ( Pandanaceae ) de l'île Maurice. Adansonia 24(2) 239–242 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422202926/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a02n2a11.pdf pdf online][
  • 2003. Bosser JM; PJ Cribb. Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXIV. Bathiorchis , nouveau genre monotypique de Madagascar. Adansonia 25(2) 229–231 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422204041/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a03n2a8.pdf pdf online]
  • 2004. Bosser, JM. Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXIII Adansonia 26(1) 53–61 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422202542/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/2135_a04n1a3.pdf pdf online]
  • 2005. Bosser, JM; R Rabevohitra. Espèces nouvelles dans le genre Dalbergia (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae) à Madagascar. Adansonia 27(2) 209–216 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422205443/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/6852_a05n2a3.pdf pdf online]
  • 2006. Bosser, JM. Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXV. Description d'un Oeceoclades nouveau de Madagascar, et notes sur trois genres nouveaux pour les Mascareignes. Adansonia 28(1) 45–54 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422204720/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/8186_a06n1a2.pdf pdf online]
  • 2012. Baider, C; FBV Florens; F Rakotoarivelo; J Bosser; T. Pailler. Two new records of Jumellea (Orchidaceae) for Mauritius (Mascarene Islands) and its conservation status. Phytotaxa 52: 21–28 [http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2012/f/p00052p028f.pdf abstract online]

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  • 2007. Hermans, J; C Hermans; D Du Puy; P Cribb; JM Bosser. Orchids of Madagascar. Ed. Royal Botanic Kew 398 pp. {{ISBN|1-84246-133-8}}

Dedicated species

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