Amédée Masclef

The standard author abbreviation Masclef is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

He was Professor of Natural Sciences at the Petit séminaire d'Arras and was a member of the Société botanique de France from 1885. He also published 'Catalogue Raisonne des Plantes Vasculaires du Departement du Pas-de-calais' (1886), and 'Les plantes d'Europe' (Paris : C. Reinwald : Schleicher frères, 1905), and 'Contributions à la flore du département du Pas-de-Calais. Notice sur l'herbier du musée de la ville d'Arras (1885)'. Upon leaving the Petit séminaire he took up the position of curator of Gaston Bonnier's herbarium, and in 1905 was recorded as living in Champlan.

Also published was 'Les Plantes d'Europe' (5 editions published between 1890 and 1953 in French).

He was survived by his wife, Leonie Marie Adele Mekarski (1869–1916), whom he had married in 1891, and was the daughter of Louis Jean Népomocène Mekarski and Fanny Louise Mekarski (born Conchon). Amédée and Leonie had one daughter, Louise Fanny Léonie Masclef, who married one Gommerat.