Henri-Auguste Duval

Henri-Auguste Duval (born April 28, 1777 in Alençon , † March 16, 1814 in Paris ) was a French doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Duval ".

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Henri-Auguste Duval studied medicine at the University of Paris and wrote his dissertation on pyrosis . He became known through the catalog Plantae succulentae in horto Alenconio , published in 1809 . The succulents growing in Alençon were listed on 18 pages and the plant genera Gasteria , Haworthia and Ligularia were described for the first time .

In 1813 he published a supplement to the work of JD Dupont Double flore parisienne ou description de toutes les espèces qui croissent naturellement aux environs de Paris .

Dedication names

Adrian Hardy Haworth named the genus Duvalia of the plant family of dog poison plants (Apocynaceae) in his honor .

Also, the genus Duvaliandra M.G.Gilbert the plant family of asclepiadoideae (Asclepiadaceae) is named after him.

Works

• Démonstrations botaniques, ou analyze du fruit, considéré en général . Paris, 1808
• Essai sur le pyrosis ou fer-chaud . Paris, 1809 - dissertation
• Plantae succulentae in horto Alenconio , Paris, 1809
• Supplément contenant toutes les plantes nouvelles à l'ouvrage de JD Dupont . Paris, 1813

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• Entry in the Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biography médicale . Volume 3, p. 566
• Gordon Douglas Rowley : A History of Succulent Plants . Strawberry Press, 1997. ISBN 0-912647-16-0
• Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . CRC Press Inc., 2000, p. 860. ISBN 0-8493-2676-1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adrian Hardy Haworth: Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum . London, 1812.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Henri-Auguste Duval at the IPNI