Pierre Allorge
Pierre Allorge was a French botanist born in Paris. His wife, Valentine Allorge was a noted bryologist.
He studied natural sciences in Paris, obtaining his doctorate with a thesis titled Les Associations végétales du Vexin français. In 1933 he became chair of cryptogamy at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle. In 1937 he was appointed president of the Société botanique de France. Between 1928 and 1938 he issued the exsiccata Bryotheca Iberica. Muscinées de l'Espagne et du Portugal. Together with his wife Valentine Allorge he published two further bryophyte exsiccatae in 1938 and 1942.
In 1924 he founded the journal Revue algologique with Gontran Hamel.