> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 140](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259186) of TL-2 Suppl. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13940-1) LSID 13940-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q346745) QID Q346745 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Decary, Raymond (1891-1973), French administer for the colonies, born at Méry sur Seine, lived in Madagascar since 1916 where he was able to find the time to study the geology, flora, fauna, and ethnography of the island until his retirement in 1944, collected on several scientific expeditions for the Paris Museum of Natural History, died 1973. **Abbreviated name**: *Decary* \[standard form in IPNI: *Decary*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection P|P]] (25.000), also at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection TAN|TAN]]. #### Bibliography and biography Hortus 3: 1191; IH 2: 156; Kew 2: 40. #### Biofile - Christensen, C., Dansk bot. Ark. 7: vi, xii-xiii. 1932. - Humbert, H., C.R. AETFAT 4: 138-139. 1962. - Viette, P., Bull. Soc. entomol. France 78: 297-298. 1974. - White, A. and B.L. Sloane, The Stapelieae 71, 154. 1933, ed. 2, 37, 141, 963, 964, 1007. 1937 (portr.). #### Eponymy *Decarya* = *Decaryia* Choux (Didiereaceae); *Decarydendron* Danguy (Monimiaceae); *Decaryella* Camus (Gramineae); *Decaryochloa* Camus (Gramineae), see ING 1: 500. 1979. ### Publications ##### n.29.419. Contribution **Title** *Contribution* à la *botanique* et à la géologie de la région *Fort-Dauphin-Andrahomana* ... Extrait du Bulletin de l'Académie malgache... 1927 \[i.e. 1928\]. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1928, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-8. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. trim. Acad. malgache ser. 2. 10: 13-18. 1928. ##### n.29.420. famille **Title** La *famille* des *Phalloidacées* et ses représentants à Madagascar... Extrait du Bulletin de l'Académie malgache... 1928. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1928, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-5, *2 pl*. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. trim. Acad. malgache ser. 2. 10: 35-39, *2 pl*. 1928 (Though reprint dated 1929). ##### n.29.421. intéressantes fructifications **Title** Deux *intéressantes fructifications* de *plantes malgaches*... Extrait du Bulletin de l'Académie malgache... 1929. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1929, cover-t.p., title recto of p. \[1\], p. \[1\]-3, *1 pl*. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. trim. Acad. malgache ser. 2. 11: 53-55, *1 pl*. 1929. ##### n.29.422. recherches **Title** Les *recherches* de *botanique* pure et appliquée *à Madagascar*... Extrait des Actes et Comptes Rendus de l'Association Colonies-Sciences... 1938. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov 1938 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-11, \[12, printer's mark\]. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Actes C.R. Assoc. Col-Sci. 14(161): 149-159. 1938.