Paul Louis Amans Dop Explained

Paul Louis Amans Dop (Toulouse, 25 February 1876 – Lectoure, 19 August 1954)[1] was a French botanist who worked extensively in Indochina. From 1908 he was associated with the Mascarene botanist Marcel Marie Maurice Dubard, carrying out much taxonomic work under the name of Dubard & Dop.[2] [3]

In 1969, botanist Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis published Pauldopia, a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Indo-China, belonging to the family Bignoniaceae and named in honour of Paul Dop.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Dop (Paul, Louis, Amans) », 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. Web site: Tropicos.
  3. Web site: Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries.
  4. Web site: Pauldopia Steenis Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 19 May 2021 . en.
  5. Web site: Dop, Paul Louis Amans.