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Alfred Huet du Pavillon (January 1829, in Blain, Loire-Atlantique – 1907, in Frohsdorf) was a French botanist. His brother, Édouard Huet du Pavillon (1819-1908), with whom he often collaborated, was also a botanist.

He spent his childhood in Switzerland and later studying under botanist Alphonse de Candolle. From 1852 to 1856, he served as the curator of de Candolle's herbarium. 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.

Together, the Huet brothers amassed an impressive herbarium and issued numerous series of exsiccatae. In 1856, Pierre Edmond Boissier introduced the genus name Huetia in honor of the Huet brothers.

Associated writings

• Description de quelques plantes nouvelles des Pyrénées, 1853 - Description of some new plants of the Pyrénées.
• Notice biographique sur les botanistes Edouard et Alfred Huet du Pavillon, 1914, by Edouard Huet du Pavillon, Alfred Huet du Pavillon, and John Briquet.

References

1. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - H Fakultät für Biologie und Psychologie, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschafte
2. Bulletin de l'Académie internationale de géographie botanique, Volume 18 by Académie internationale de géographie botanique
3. Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
4. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
5. Tropicos Huetia Boiss.
6. Google Books (published works)
7. International Plant Names Index.  A.Huet.

• 1829 births
• 1907 deaths
• People from Loire-Atlantique
• 19th-century French botanists