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### Author
Poivre, Pierre (1719-1786), French plant collector and administrator, travelling and collecting in China (1739-1745), Indochina, the Moluccas, the Philippines and Madagascar, for the French East India Company from 1748-1757, in France as agriculturist 1757-1767; from 1767-1773 "intendant" of Réunion and Ile de France; from 1773 again in France
**Abbreviated name**: *Poivre* \[standard form in IPNI: *Poivre*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection P|P]] (also in [[Collection P|P]]-JU). – Manuscripts at [[Collection P|P]] and in Angers and Lyon. – Portrait at [[Collection G|G]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 455; Barnhart 2: 95 (b. 17 Aug 1719, d. 6 Jan 1786); Bossert p. 313; Bret. p. 117-118; Lasègue p. 56, 316, 449, 504; PR ed. 1: 8125-8126, see also p. 359; SK 1: 409-410 (portr.), 4: xcvi, 8: lxxvi (itin., sec. refs.); TL-2/1: see P. Commerson.
#### Biofile
- Abonnenc, E. et al., Bibl. Guyane franç. 1: 213. 1957.
- Beer, G. de, The sciences were never at war 20-22. 1960.
- Fournier, P., Voy. décr. sci. mission. natural. franç. 1: 88-90, 92, 2: 50. 1932.
- Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 303. 1938.
- Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 472. 1864.
- Lacroix, A., Figures de savants 3: 253 \[index\], 4: 33. 1938.
- Magnin, A., Bull. Soc. bot. Lyon 31: 34, 47. 1906, 32: 111. 1907, 35: 21, 67. 1910.
- Malleret, L., Proc. R. Soc. Mauritius 3(1): 117-130. 1968 (introd. Chinese pl. in Mauritius), Pierre Poivre, Paris, 1974 (Publ. École franç. Extr.-Orient 92), 723 p., 4 pl. (main biogr; portr., very detailed bibl. of secondary references).
- Nicolas, J.P., *in* G.H.M. Lawrence, ed., Adanson 1: 23, 26. 1962.
- Stafleu, F.A., *in* L'Heritier, Sert. angl., facs. ed. 1963, p. lix, lxxv, 8, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 275. 1971.
- Steenis, C.G.G. J. van, Fl. males. Bull. 23: 1675. 1969.
- Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 21. 1935, 2: 471. 1936.
#### Eponymy
*Poivrea* Commerson ex L.M.A.A. Du Petit-Thouars (1811).
#### Oeuvres completes
1797, *Oeuvres complètes* de P. Poivre précédé de sa vie \[par P.S. Dupont de Nemours\], Paris (Fuchs) 1797. Oct., iv, 310 p. (see Abonnenc 1957).