> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 773](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190244) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8363-1) LSID 8363-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q249386) QID Q249386 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Richer de Belleval, Pierre (1564-1632), French botanist, founder of the Montpellier botanical garden. **Abbreviated name**: *Richer de Belleval* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rich.Bell.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 153; BM 1: 130 (sub Belleval); Hegi 4(1): 242; Lasègue p. 518; Moebius p. 419; NI 1: 94-96. PR sub Belleval: 600-603, 9328, ed. 1: (id.): 200, 687-691, 1348, 2697, 3635. #### Biofile - Anon., Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Pierre Richer de Belleval, fondateur du jardin botanique donné par Henri iv. à la faculté de médecine de Montpellier en 1593... Avignon (chez Jean-Albert Joly) 1786, viii, 78 p. (copy at G). - Gérard, Bull. Soc. bot France 40: x. 1893. (Henri IV created bot. gard. Montpellier 8 Dec 1593; R. actual founder). - Legrelle, Bull. Soc. bot. France 40: cclvi-cclx. 1893. - Magnin, A., Bull. Soc. bot. Lyon 31: 24. 1906. - Martins, Ch., Le jardin des plantes de Montpellier, 1854, see index for numerous entries). - Planchon, J.E., Pierre. Richer de Belleval fondateur du Jardin des plantes de Montpellier. Montpellier 1869, 72 p. (rev. Bull. Soc. bot. France 17 (bibl.): 125-126. 1870; 20: 96-98. 1873. - Ricard, Bull. Soc. bot. France 19: lxxviii-lxxix. 1872 (on unpubl. manuscripts by R.). #### Eponymy *Richeria* M. Vahl (1797); *Richeriella* Pax et K. Hoffmann (1922).