Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on 30 November 1827 and died in Paris on 19 July 1895.
Hugh Algernon Weddell was a physician and botanist, specialising in South American flora.
Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem was a French botanist born in Baillleul in the département of Nord. He was one of the best known French botanists of the latter nineteenth century.
Ernest Saint-Charles Cosson was a French botanist born in Paris
Tourneuxia is a genus of flowering plants in the dandelion tribe within the daisy family.
Perralderia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family and is native to Africa. In particular, it is native to Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Western Sahara.
Dasypyrum is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family, native to the basins of the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas.
Jean Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières was a merchant of Lille and an amateur mycologist. He was the editor of the scientific journals "Annales des sciences naturelles" and the "Bulletin de la société des sciences de Lille".
The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854. At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its disposal, the education and the work of its members".
Wladimir de Schoenefeld was a German-born, French botanist.
Galium × carmineum, common name carmine bedstraw, is a species of the Rubiaceae. It is apparently of hybrid origin though established in the wild, a 3-way cross between G. anisophyllon × G. pumilum × G. rubrum. It is native to mountainous regions of France, Switzerland and Italy.
Napoléon Doumet-Adanson (22 October 1834, Guéret – 31 May 1897 Château de Balaine was a French naturalist. He was a botanist specialising in the flora of Tunisia. He was a founder member of the Société d'horticulture et de botanique de l'Hérault. Doumet was also interested in entomology. He was a Member of the Institut de France.
Paul Auguste Danguy was a French botanist.
Goniothalamus gabriacianus is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Cambodia, the province of Hainan China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. Henri Ernest Baillon the French botanist who first formally described the species using the basionym Oxymitra gabriaciana, named it after Paul-Pierre Gabriac, a French civil servant in Vietnam, who provided one of the specimens that he examined.
Amylotheca is a genus of hemi-parasitic arial shrubs in the family Loranthaceae, found in Borneo, Malaysia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Australia, Sumatra, Thailand, and Vanuatu.
Trilepidea adamsii, or Adams mistletoe, is an extinct loranthaceous mistletoe of New Zealand. It was first described in 1880 as Loranthus adamsii and has ever only been collected from a few locations in the North Island. It has been argued that the extinction of this species, vulnerable due to restricted distribution, was caused by interaction of a number of factors, including introduction of an exotic species, in this case the brushtail possum from Australia.
André Aubréville was a French botanist, professor at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and a member of the Academy of Sciences. He was the first scientist to introduce the term "desertification" (in his 1949 book: Climats, forêts et désertification de l'Afrique tropicale, and wrote a number of floras of former French colonies.
Amédée Masclef was a French abbé and botanist best known for his three-volume 400-plate work 'Atlas des plantes de France' published in Paris in 1891 and re-issued in 1893. It was regarded as complementary to "Nouvelle flore du Nord de la France et de la Belgique" by Georges de Layens and Gaston Bonnier.
Étienne Marcellin Granié-Blanc, religious name Frère Sennen (1861–1937), was a French botanist and member (Brother) of the Catholic order Frères des écoles chrétiennes. He collected plants in France, Spain, and Morocco.
Kalanchoe × poincarei is a species of Kalanchoe native to southern Madagascar. Its scientific name is often misapplied to K. suarezensis and K. mortagei, but K. × poincarei is very different from them. The true K. × poincarei is a natural hybrid involving K. beauverdii, with similar sprawling stems up to 3 m in length, and not known in cultivation, whereas K. suarezensis and K. mortagei are erect, 30~60 cm tall and cultivated as ornamentals.
