Alfred Huet du Pavillon

Alfred Huet du Pavillon (January 1829, in Blain, Loire-Atlantique – 1907, in Frohsdorf) was a French botanist.

[1] In the 1850s, he embarked on a series of botanical expeditions to the Pyrénées, Armenia, Italy (including Sicily) and Sardinia.

In Italy and Sicily, he was accompanied by his brother, Édouard Huet du Pavillon.

[2] Together, the Huet brothers amassed an impressive herbarium and issued numerous series of exsiccatae.

[3] In 1856, Pierre Edmond Boissier introduced the genus name Huetia in honor of the Huet brothers.