Maurice Gomont Explained

Maurice-Augustin Gomont (born 1839, in Rouen – died 1909, in Rouen) was a French phycologist.^[1]

Works

• Gomont, M (1892). "Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique. 7 (16).

Honours

• Gomontia, which is a genus of green algae, in the family Gomontiaceae and also Gomontiellaceae, which is a family of cyanobacteria, were both named in 1888 by botanists Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet and Charles Henri Marie Flahault after Maurice Gomont.^[2]
• Gomontiellaceae are a family of cyanobacteria, with Gomontiella, a species named in 1901.^[3]

Further reading

• Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . 246307410 . 27 January 2022.

Notes and References

1. M. éD. Bornet (1909) Maurice-Augustin Gomont (1839–1909), Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, 56:6, 440–449,
2. Web site: Genus: Gomontia taxonomy browser. AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. 25 September 2007. Guiry, M.D.. Guiry, G.M.. 2007.
3. Web site: Gomontiellaceae . www.gbif.org . 16 March 2022 . en.