Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier was a Belgian who conducted a parallel career of botanist and Member of Parliament and is the first discoverer of biological cell division.
Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire was a French botanist and traveller who was born and died in Orléans, France. A keen observer, he is credited with important discoveries in botany, notably the direction of the radicle in the embryo sac and the double point of attachment of certain ovules. He also described two families, the Paronychiae and the Tamariscinae, as well as many genera and species.
Louis Édouard Bureau was a French physician and botanist.
Gaston Eugène Marie Bonnier was a French botanist and plant ecologist. The standard author abbreviation Bonnier is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Louis Benoît van Houtte was a Belgian horticulturist who was with the Jardin Botanique de Brussels between 1836 and 1838 and is best known for the journal Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, produced with Charles Lemaire and M. Scheidweiler, an extensive work boasting more than 2,000 coloured plates in 23 volumes published between 1845 and 1883.
Charles Antoine Lemaire, was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae.
Charles François Antoine Morren, was a Belgian botanist and horticulturist, and Director of the Jardin botanique de l'Université de Liège.
Elise Caroline Bommer, née Destrée, was a Belgian botanist specialising in mycology, and was the wife of pteridologist and collector Jean-Édouard Bommer (1829–1895), who was professor of botany at University of Brussels in 1872. The standard author abbreviation E.Bommer is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
The State University of Leuven was a university founded in 1817 in Leuven in Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was distinct from the Old University of Leuven (1425-1797) and from the Catholic University of Leuven, founded in 1834, which moved from Mechlin to Leuven after the State University had been closed in 1835.
Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns (1901-1986), known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist. His son, André Robyns (1935–2003), was also a botanist.
Leucocoprinus fragilissimus, commonly known as the fragile dapperling, is a species of gilled mushroom in the family Agaricaceae.
Georges Roffavier was a French botanist.
Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans was a Belgian Catholic priest and botanist.
Jean Jacques Kickx was a Belgian botanist. His father, Jean Kickx (1803–1864), and grandfather, also named Jean Kickx (1775–1831), were both botanists.
Jean Kickx Son of Jacques Kickx and Marie van Esschen was a Belgian botanist and mineralogist. His son Jean Kickx (1803-1864) and grandson Jean Jacques Kickx (1842-1887) both became professors of botany at the University of Ghent.
Gérard Daniel Westendorp was a Dutch born, Belgian military physician and botanist.
Joseph (Jean) Édouard Bommer was a Belgian botanist specializing in the field of pteridology. He was the husband of mycologist Elise Caroline Destrée de Bommer (1832-1910).
Events in the year 1831 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1864 in Belgium.
Joseph Jean De Smet (1794–1877) was a priest and historian who took part in the Belgian Revolution of 1830.
