Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc was a French botanist, invertebrate zoologist, and entomologist.
Nicaise Auguste Desvaux was a French botanist.
The Muséum des sciences naturelles d'Angers is a municipal museum in Angers. Dedicated to Natural History, the Muséum d'Angers houses in its collections about 530,000 objects, including 3,000 birds, 20,000 shells, 50,000 fossils, 80,000 insects and 350,000 herbarium samples, as well as hundreds of specimens taxidermised or in liquid, skeletons, minerals, technical instruments and Documents. The Muséum d'Angers receives annually about 20,000 visitors, as well as school groups, interns, researchers and volunteers.
Echinolaena is a genus of plants in tribe Paspaleae of the grass family, native to the New World tropics. It includes only two species after the referral of former members to the related genera Hildaea, Ichnanthus, Oedochloa and the more distant Chasechloa in a 2015 revision.
Rostkovia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juncaceae. It was described in 1809.
Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire in Africa that included Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia. Chevalier was a prolific contributor to the knowledge of African plants, studying forest trees and their woods, grasses, and agricultural plants of the continent. Unlike other botanists who studied the plants of tropical Africa, Chevalier also ranged to the floral regions of the Sahara.
Pteris platyzomopsis, synonym Platyzoma microphyllum, is a fern in the family Pteridaceae. When placed in the genus Platyzoma, it was the only species; the genus was sometimes placed in its own family, Platyzomaceae. The species is native to northern Australia, occurring in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, in the Northern Territory and Queensland, and in northern New South Wales, where it is considered endangered. Vernacular names include braid fern.
Centotheca is a genus of African, Asian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family.
Streptostachys is a genus of South American plants in the grass family.
Graphephorum is a genus of North American plants in the grass family.
Frankenia is the only genus in the Frankeniaceae family of flowering plants. Other genera have been recognized within the family, such as Anthobryum, Hypericopsis and Niederleinia, but molecular phylogenetic studies have consistently shown that they all belong inside Frankenia. Frankenia comprises about 70–80 species of shrubs, subshrubs and herbaceous plants, adapted to saline and dry environments throughout temperate and subtropical regions. A few species are in cultivation as ornamental plants.
Cannomois is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1828. The entire genus is endemic to Cape Province in South Africa.
Marsippospermum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juncaceae described in 1809.
Chondrosum is a genus of North American and South American plants in the grass family.
Anatole Bailly was a French Hellenist, author of the famous Dictionnaire grec-français, published in 1895.
Jean-Baptiste François Rozier was a French botanist and agronomist.
François Alluaud was a French manufacturer of Limoges porcelain, geologist and mineralogist. He was the grandfather of entomologist Charles Alluaud (1861–1949).
Edme Lesauvage, was a French naturalist and physician in Caen. He wrote numerous papers on medical subjects as well as on natural history. His main interest was in palaeontology and especially the fossils of Calcaires de Caen.
Ulmus glabra 'Pyrenaica' is a local cultivar of the Wych Elm, described as Ulmus pyrenaica, the Pyrenees Elm, by de Lapeyrouse in Supplément à l'Histoire abrégée des plantes des Pyrénées (1818), from trees in the Port [:pass] de la Picade in the Basses-Pyrenees. Chevalier added a further description in 'Les Ormes de France' (1942), and a second provenance in the nearby Bagnères-de-Luchon area. Herbarium specimens are held in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, where U. campestris var. montana latifolia is given as a synonym.
Marie Pierre Adrien Francastel (1761–1831) was a French politician. During the French Revolution, he was elected to the National Convention from Eure department, and joined the Mountain. Francastel took part, on the Republican side, in the War in the Vendée, including during the Siege of Angers.
