François Gagnepain Explained
| Birth Date: | 23 September 1866 |
| Birth Place: | Raveau |
| Fields: | Botany |
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| Known For: | Naming species of Annonaceae |
| Awards: | Prix de Coincy (French Academy of Sciences) |
| Author Abbrev Bot: | Gagnep. |
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François Gagnepain (23 September 1866 - 25 January 1952) was a French botanist. The standard botanical author abbreviation Gagnep. is applied to plants described by Gagnepain.
With Achille Eugène Finet, he named a number of species within the botanical family Annonaceae.[1] The genus Gagnepainia (family Zingiberaceae) was named in his honor by Karl Moritz Schumann.[2] The French Academy of Sciences awarded Gagnepain the Prix de Coincy for the year 1907.[3]
Selected publications
- Topographie botanique des environs de Cercy-la-Tour (Nièvre), Société d'histoire naturelle d'Autun, 1900 - Botanical topography involving the environs of Cercy-la-Tour (Nièvre).
- Contributions à la flore de l'Asie orientale, 1905, (in collaboration with Achille Eugène Finet) - Contributions to the flora of eastern Asia.
- Contribution à l'étude géo-botanique de l'Indo-Chine, 1926 - Contribution to the geobotanical study of Indochina.[4]
Notes and References
- http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Finet&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI
- https://books.google.com/books?id=6YIJqE3Qep0C&dq=%22Gagnepainia%22+%22Gagnepain%22&pg=PA1040 CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 2
- Séance du 2 décembre. Le Moniteur Scientifique du Docteur Quesneville. January 1908. 89–90. https://archive.today/20141025231805/http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2557130;view=1up;seq=77. dead. 2014-10-25.
- https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Fran%C3%A7ois+Gagnepain%22 Google Search
