Genus Grevea
Pictures from Observations
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For a Monsieur H Grevé (?–1895), a French plant collector who discovered the type species on the banks of the Morondava River in Madagascar, probably in 1883, and gave it to Henry Ernest Baillon, French botanist and professor of natural history, who named it Grevea madagascariensis in his honour in 1884. For more than 20 years, Grevé collected plants, fossils and other natural history objects for Alfred Grandidier, French naturalist and explorer. Grevé settled at Morondava and married the daughter of a Sakalava chief, raised cattle and crops and served as representative for the Messageries Maritimes, a French merchant shipping company. In 1895, during the second Franco-Hova War against the island’s Merina aristocrats, seeking to restore property confiscated from French residents, Grevé was taken prisoner by Hova soldiers and shot on orders of the Hova military government.