> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 164](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355251) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12666-1) LSID 12666-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21519514) QID Q21519514 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Lortet, Mme. Clémence, née Richard (1772-1835), French botanist at Lyon; pupil and botanical companion of Gilibert, one of the founders of the Société linnéenne de Lyon. **Abbreviated name**: *C. Lortet* \[standard form in IPNI: *Lortet*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LY|LY]], in the herbarium of the Société linnéenne. #### Bibliography and biography AG 12(2): 539; Barnhart 2: 403; Bossert p. 243. - Anon., Ann. Soc. bot. Lyon 19: 14. 1893/4; Bull. Soc. bot. France 23: clxxxv. 1876 (herb.). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 429. 1880 (herb.). - Magnin, A., Bull. Soc. bot. Lyon 32: 2-4, 125. 1907, 35: 33. 1910; Les Lortet, Lyon 1913, 109 p. (portr. bibl.) - Pritzel, G. A., Linnaea 19: 457. 1946 (b. 17 Sep 1772, d. 15 Apr 1835). - Roffavier, Ann. Soc. bot. Lyon 1856: 1-11. (portr., biogr.). - Verdoorn, F., Chron. bot. 1: 12. 1935 (d. 16 Apr 1835). - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 115. 1903. #### Note on the lortet family Clémence Richard (1772-1835; no known connection with the botanical Richard family) married Jean Pierre Lortet (x-1823) in 1791. Her son Pierre Lortet (1792-1868) physician and naturalist, also active as amateur botanist, married (1826) Nettchen Müller (1802-1837). Louis-Charles Lortet (1836-1909), physician and botanist was the third child born out of this marriage; see below for treatment. Clémence Lortet contributed to publications by Balbis and Gilibert; published-through Gilibert – a *Calendrier de Flore* (1809), and left a mss. *Promenades botaniques* (1804-1805).