Louis Charles Trabut

Louis Charles Trabut was a French botanist and physician who was a native of Chambéry, department of Savoie. He is remembered for his work involving the flora of Algeria and Tunisia.
Trabut was a professor of natural history at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Algiers, and also a consultant physician to the Mustapha Pacha hospital. With botanist Jules Aimé Battandier, he published several works on Algerian flora, that included the following:Flore de l'Algérie .L'Algérie, le sol et les habitants, flore, faune, geologie, anthropologie, ressources agricoles et économiques .Flore analytique et synoptique de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie .

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In 1881, mycologists Pier Andrea Saccardo and Casimir Roumeguère published a fungal genus, Trabutia, which was named after Trabut.
In 1920, F.Stevens published Trabutiella, also in the family Phyllachoraceae.
Lastly, Joanne E.Taylor, K.D.Hyde & E.B.G.Jones in 2003 published Tribulatia which is a monotypic genus of fungi in the family Phyllachoraceae.
He also has several plant species named after him, such as the eucalyptus species Eucalyptus trabutii.