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### Author
Trochain, Jean Louis (1903-1976), French botanist, Lic. sci. Toulouse; assistant at the Faculté des Sciences ib. 1924-1929; assistant Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 1929-1943; Maître de conférences Faculté des Sciences, Montpellier 1943-1948, prof. ib. 1948-1961; from 1961-1975 professor of tropical botany at Toulouse; founder and director of the Institut d'Études Africaines, Brazzaville 1947-1961.
**Abbreviated name**: *Troch.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Troch.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PC|PC]] (1930-1934 Sénégal), [[Collection MPU|MPU]] (1946 Sudan), [[Collection IEC|IEC]] (coll. after 1947); dupl. at [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection TL|TL]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]].
#### Bibliography and biography
IH 1 (ed. 1): 64, (ed. 2): 27, 83, (ed. 3): 31, (ed. 4): 32, (ed. 5): 185, 186, (ed. 6): 274, 275, 365, (ed. 7): 344; Roon p. 115.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 194: 639-640. 1966; Who's who in France 1955-1956: 1587-1588, 1961-1962: 2786, 1963-1964: 2310-2311, 1965-1966: 2642, 1967-1968: 1350, 1969-1970: 1395-1396, 1971-1972: 1509.
- Jacques-Félix, H., J. Agric. trop. Bot. appl. 28: 57-58. 1976.
- Staner, P., Acad. R. Sci. Outre-Mer, Annuaire 1977, Bull. Séances 1977(1): 65-67 (obit., portr.; b. 4 Jun 1903, d. 11 Nov 1976).
- Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 353. 1935, 2: 2, 27, 30, 129, 131, 385. 1936, 3: 2, 28. 1937, 4: 299. 1938, 6: 308. 1941.
### Publications
##### n.15.190. Contribution à l'étude de la végétation du Sénégal
**Title**
*Contribution à l'étude de la végétation du Sénégal*... Paris (Librairie Larose...) 1940. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Contr. vég. Sénégal*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1940, p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-433, \[435\], *pl. 1-30* with text. *Copies*: B, BR, G, PH. – Mém. Inst. franç. Afr. noire 2, 1940.
*Thesis issue*: 1940 (t.p. dated 1940; theses defended 8 Jun 1941), p. \[i-vi\], \[1\]-433, *pl. 1-30* id. *Copy*: HH. Thèses presentées à la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Paris pour obtenir le grade de Docteur ès-sciences naturelles. Paris (id.) 1940.