> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 107](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120238) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/416-1) LSID 416-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q536946) QID Q536946 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Balansa, Benedict (Benjamin) (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Balansa, Benedict ("Benjamin"") (1825-1891), French botanical explorer. **Abbreviated name**: *Balansa* \[standard form in IPNI: *Balansa*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown; large sets especially at [[Collection P|P]], for details see IH. Balansa issued various sets of plants such as *Plantes du Paraguay* (1878-1884). These sets were irregular in numbers as well as in labelling and do not constitute regular *exsiccatae. *Spegazinni's *Fungi guaranitici* and Mueller Arg., *Lichenes paraguayenses* are based on Balansa's Paraguayan collections. Many Balansa collections are described in the *Plantae hasslerianae*, Bull. herb. Boissier ser. 2, tome 2. 1902. Balansa collected also in Turkey, Algiers, Marocco, New Caledonia, Loyalty Is., Tonkin. *Ref*.: IH 2: 51. - Candolle, Phytographie 393-394. 1880. - Stevenson, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 36: 28-30. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 384, 12(1): 265; Barnhart 1: 110; BM 6: 51; Bossert p. 22; CSP 1: 66, 7: 76, 9: \[*n.v.*\], 12: 45, 13: 258; GR p. 304; Kew 1: 137; Zander (ed. 10) p. 630. - Cosson et Durieu, Exp. Sci. Algérie, Bot. 2: xx. 1868. - Cosson, Comp. fl. Atl. 1: 16-17. 1881. - Debeaux, Rev. de Bot. 10: 661-664. 1892. - Gagnepain, Fl. Indochine, tome prél. 34. 1944. - Astre, La vie de Benjamin Balansa, botaniste explorateur. Toulouse 1947, 200 p. (portr.) (coll. *Les livres du Museum*, Toulouse). - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. ser. I. 1: 32-33. 1950. - Davy de Virville, Hist. bot. France p. 381 \[index\]. 1954. - Astre, Mem. Acad. Sci. Inscr. Belles-Lettres Toulouse ser. 14. 3 (= 124): 17-34. 1962 (documents on trip to Tonkin and Java). - Astre, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse 101: 170. 1966. #### Eponymy *Balansaea* Boissier & Reuter (1852); *Balansaephytum* Drake del Castillo (1896); *Balansia* Spegazzini (1885); *Balansiella* Hennings (1904); *Balansina* G. Arnaud (1918); *Balansiopsis* Höhnel (1910); *Balansochloa* O. Kuntze (1903).