Name Ernest Tourlet | ||
Ernest Henry Tourlet (1843 in Chinon – 1907) was a French pharmacist and amateur botanist.
He studied pharmacy, natural sciences and chemistry in Paris, afterwards returning to his hometown of Chinon, where in 1868 he succeeded his father at the local pharmacy. Up until his death his in 1907, he collected plants throughout the department of Indre-et-Loire. He is credited with creating the most important herbarium in Indre-et-Loire (11,000 sheets of specimens showcasing 1530 species).
He published many of his findings in the Bulletin de la Société botanique de France. His "Catalogue raisonné des plantes vasculaires du département d'Indre-et-Loire" was unfinished at the time of his death.
In 1866 he became an associate member of the Société botanique de France. The sedge species Carex tourletii Gillot ex Tourlet (synonym Carex muelleriana) is named after him.