Henri Ernest Baillon

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Henri Ernest Baillon
Diploglottis cunninghamii , illustration from Baillon's work Dictionnaire de botanique

Henri Ernest Baillon (born November 30, 1827 in Calais , † July 18, 1895 in Paris ) was a French botanist and doctor . Baillon was director of the Paris Botanical Gardens . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Baill. ". He is the first to describe the most original plant under the angiosperms (angiosperms), amborella that occurs in New Caledonia.

In 1867 he was appointed a member of the Legion of Honor . In December 1889 he was accepted as an external corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 1894, Baillon was elected to the Royal Society as a "Foreign Member" .

Works

For the Flora brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius he wrote the chapter on "Dichapetaleae" in Volume 12 No. 1 from 1886. He contributed "Phytocreneae" in Volume 17 from 1873 to Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle . Here is a selection of his own works:

  • Adansonia, recueil périodique d'observations botaniques . 10 volumes, 1866–1870. Paris.
  • Dictionnaire de botanique . 4 volumes, 1876-1892. Paris.
  • Étude générale du groupe des Euphorbiacées . 1858.
  • Histoire des plantes . 13 volumes, 1866–1895.
  • Histoire naturelle des plantes de Madagascar . 3 volumes.
  • Iconography de la flore française . 5 volumes, 1885–1894.
  • Monograph des Buxacées et des Stylocérée . 1859.
  • Research organogéniques on the fleur femelle des Conifères . 1860.
  • Research on the organization, le développement et l'anatomie des Caprifoliacées . 1864.
  • Traité de botanique médicale cryptogamique . 1889 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Traité de botanique médicale phanérogamique . 2 volumes, 1883–1884. Hachette, Paris.

Honors

The plant genera Baillonia Bocq. ex Baill. from the Verbenaceae family , Baillonacanthus Kuntze from the Acanthaceae family , Baillonella Pierre from the Sapotaceae family and Baillonodendron F.Heim from the Dipterocarpaceae family were named after him.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Baillon, Ernest Henri. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 30, 2019 (in Russian).
  2. ^ Entry on Baillon; Henri Ernest (1827-1895) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Baillon, Henri Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Calais
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1895
Place of death Paris