Georges Rouy Explained

Georges Rouy (2 December 1851, Paris – 25 December 1924, Asnières-sur-Seine)^[1] was a French botanist who was among the first to identify infraspecific (i.e., below the level of species) taxa, including: subspecies, varieties, and forms.

Published works

With Julien Foucaud and others, he was author of the Flore de France; ou, Description des plantes qui croissent spontanément en France, en Corse et en Alsace-Lorraine (Flora of France; descriptions of plants that are native to France, Corsica and Alsace-Lorraine, published in 14 volumes from 1893 to 1913.^[2] His other principal works include:

• Excursion botanique en Espagne, Spanien Florenwerke, 1881 - Botanical excursion in Spain.
• Atlas iconographique des plantes rares de France et de Corse, 1897 - Iconographic atlas of rare plants native to France and Corsica.
• Revue de botanique systématique et de géographie botanique, (1903, 1904) - Botanical systematics and phytogeography.
• Conspectus de la Flore de France, ou Catalogue général des espèces, sous-espèces, races, variétés, sous-variétés et formes hybrides contenues dans la "Flore de France", P. Lechevalier, 1927 (with Henri Lecomte) - Overview of the "Flore de France".^[3]

Taxa

Rouy was the binomial author of many botanical species.^[4] In 1901 the genus Rouya was named in his honor by Auguste-Henri de Coincy.^[5] His name is also associated with plants having the specific epithets of rouyi, rouyana and rouyanum, some examples being: Allium rouyi, Armeria rouyana,^[6] and Clinopodium rouyanum.^[7]

External links

• • • The Herbier Rouy photograph

Notes and References

1. Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Rouy (Claude, Charles, Georges) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p.
2. https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Rouy%2C+Georges%2C+1851-1924%22 Archive.org
3. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Georges+Rouy%22 Google Search
4. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Rouy&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
5. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190417#page/960/mode/1up BHL
6. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/161989/0 IUCN Red List
7. https://www.gbif.org/species/3885839 GBIF