Lucile Allorge

Lucile Boiteau was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, 25 October 1937.{{cite book | author-first1 = Laurence J. |author-last1=Dorr | year = 1997 | title = Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands: A Biographical and Bibliographical Guide to Individuals and Groups who Have Collected Herbarium Material of Algae, Bryophytes, Fungi, Lichens, and Vascular Plants in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, Part 1 | publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | page =8 | isbn = 978-1-900347-18-1 | oclc = 1029975471 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dPkfAQAAIAAJ}} Her father, Pierre Boiteau, was the founder and director of the Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza. Allorge holds a doctorate in botanical sciences.{{cite web |title=Academiciens - ALLORGE Lucile |url=https://www.academiedoutremer.fr/academiciens/?aId=83 |website=Académie des sciences d'outre-mer |access-date=26 January 2023 |language=fr}}{{cite book |title=Monographie des Apocynacées - Tabernaemontanoïdées américaines |publisher=Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle |location= Paris |language=fr |url=https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/collections/memoires-du-museum-national-d-histoire-naturelle-ser-b-botanique-1950-1992/monographie-des-apocynacees-tabernaemontanoidees-americaines |access-date=26 January 2023}}

Allorge is a member of many learned societies, including the Société botanique de France where she won the 2011 {{ill|Prix de Coincy|fr}}.{{cite web |title=Prix de Coincy |url=https://societebotaniquedefrance.fr/les-prix/prix-de-coincy/ |publisher=Société botanique de France |access-date=26 January 2023 |language=fr-FR |date=26 November 2019}}

In 1968, she joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). An honorary attaché at the National Museum of Natural History, France (MNHN), she has carried out numerous missions in French Guiana, Madagascar, the Philippines, Venezuela and Malaysia. Allorge has published more than 100 scientific articles. She has been named Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar.{{cite book | first = Lucile |last=Allorge-Boiteau | year = 2017 | title = Plantes de Madagascar: atlas | publisher = Museo éditions | chapter=Préface, by Peter B. Phillipson |language=fr | isbn = 978-2-373-75025-6 | oclc = 1005135486 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LggbtAEACAAJ}} In 2007, she was elected to the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer as a corresponding member of the 4th section. She is a member of the Société des explorateurs français.{{cite web |title=Sociétaires actuels |url=https://www.societe-explorateurs.org/societaires/societaires-actuels/ |publisher=Société des Explorateurs Français |access-date=26 January 2023 |language=fr-FR}}

• Liliaceae Aloe lucile-allorgeae Rauh
• Crassulaceae Kalanchoe lucile-allorgei Rauh & Mangeldorf
• Buthidae Tityobuthus lucileaeA new species of Tityobuthus from Madagascar (Scorpiones, Buthidae) . Wilson R. Lourenço in Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Vol. 14-N. 1, pages 267-73, 14 May 1996.

• Prix de Coincy, 2011
• Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar

• Lucile Allorge, Plantes de Madagascar : atlas. Plaissan : MUSEO (1st ed. 2008), 2017 {{ISBN|978-2-37375-025-6|2-37375-025-2}}
• Lucile Allorge (collaborator), Je sais utiliser mes huiles essentielles. Paris : Rue de l’échiquier, 2016
• Collective work under the direction of Lucile Allorge and Thomas Haevermans, Namoroka : mission à Madagascar. Toulouse : Privat; Paris : Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2015
• Yves Delange, Yves-Marie Allain, Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Lucile Allorge, Les serres : le génie architectural au service des plantes. Arles : Actes Sud, 2013.
• Régine Rosenthal, Lucile Allorge, Jean-Noël Burte, Christian Messier, Origines : les forêts primaires dans le monde. Toulouse : Éditions Privat, 2012
• Lucile Allorge-Boiteau and Maxime Allorge, Faune et flore de Madagascar. Paris : Karthala, 2011
• Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, Régine Rosenthal, Madagascar : l'Eden fragile : biodiversité. Toulouse : Éditions Privat, 2010
• Lucile Allorge, Plantes de Madagascar : atlas. Paris : Ulmer, 2008
• Lucile Allorge, La fabuleuse odyssée des plantes : les botanistes voyageurs, les jardins des plantes, les herbiers. Paris : JC Lattès, 2003 (prix Émile Gallé)
• Suzanne Mollet and Lucile Allorge, Histoire du Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza Éditions Alzieu, Grenoble, 2000
• Pierre Boiteau, Marthe Boiteau and Lucile Allorge, Dictionnaire des noms malgaches des végétaux Éditions Alzieu. Grenoble. 1999
• Pierre Boiteau, Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, Kalanchoe (Crassulacées) de Madagascar : systématique, écophysiologie et phytochimie. Paris : Karthala, 1995
• Pierre Boiteau and Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, Plantes médicinales de Madagascar. Paris : Karthala, 1993
• Scientific direction of the republication of l'illustration des genres by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, 1000 plates, 10 volumes. Paris : Éditions Amarca, 1989. Translation into Spanish by Liber Ediciones, 1995.
• Lucile Allorge, Monographie des Apocynacées - Tabernaemontanoïdées américaines. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, (Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sér. B – Botanique (1950-1992); 30). 1985.

• Botanical passions: naturalists travelers at the time of the great discoveries: exhibition, Ploézal, Domaine départemental de la Roche Jagu, 7 June-9 November 2008. Rennes: Ouest-France, 2008

• Sur la piste de Wallace, expedition to the Philippines in January 2000 under the direction of Patrice Franceschi. DVD.
• Les sortilèges de l’île rouge Madagascar, Ankarana, in November 2001, director Alain Tixier, Ushuaïa Nicolas Hulot, DVD.
• Le labyrinthe secret de Namoroka, directors Jean-Michel Corillion and Isabelle Coulon

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