Antoine Düss (August 14, 1840 – May 5, 1924) was a Swiss botanist. Père Düss was born in Hasle, Switzerland, graduated from the Gymnasium in

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and entered the Congregation du Saint-Esprit et du Saint-Coeur de Marie in

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. Titled variably as Abbé, Pére (Father) or Reverend, he held teaching positions at the Collége de

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and at the College de

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. He collected botanical specimens mainly on Guadeloupe and its dependencies and

, but made also collecting trips to

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, Dominica, and

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. He is honoured in the naming of ''

Dussiella ''Dussiella'' is a genus of fungi within the Clavicipitaceae family. The genus name of ''Dussiella'' is in honour of Antoine Duss (1840–1924), who was a Swiss botanist. The genus was circumscribed by Narcisse Théophile Patouillard Narciss ...

'', which is a

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within the

Clavicipitaceae The Clavicipitaceae are a family of fungi within the order Hypocreales. A 2008 estimate placed 43 genera in the family, but recent work has increased this number to 97. Phylogeny Molecular phylogenetic analysis of multigene DNA sequence data i ...

family, and '' Dussia'', which is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

s in the family Fabaceae.

Sources

* Urban, Ignaz. ''Notae biographicae,'' Symb. Antill. 3:14,1900.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Duss, Antoine Botanists with author abbreviations Bryologists Pteridologists Swiss mycologists 1840 births 1924 deaths 19th-century Swiss botanists Botanists active in the Caribbean 20th-century Swiss botanists