Gustave Beauverd (1867–1942) was a

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botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

, specializing in

Pteridophytes A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that reproduces by means of spores. Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as " cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction is h ...

Bryophytes Bryophytes () are a group of land plants ( embryophytes), sometimes treated as a taxonomic division referred to as Bryophyta '' sensu lato'', that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants: the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses. In t ...

, and

Spermatophytes A seed plant or spermatophyte (; New Latin ''spermat-'' and Greek ' (phytón), plant), also known as a phanerogam (taxon Phanerogamae) or a phaenogam (taxon Phaenogamae), is any plant that produces seeds. It is a category of embryophyte (i.e. la ...

. For a period of time he worked at the " Herbier Bossier", and is remembered for his investigations of the genus ''

Melampyrum ''Melampyrum'' is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Orobanchaceae known commonly as cow wheat. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. They are parasite, hemiparasites on other plan ...

''. He was a co-author of the series "Icones florae Alpinae plantarum", and the author of many works on diverse botanical subjects. In 1931 he became a member of the ''

Société botanique de France The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854. At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its di ...

''. He is the

taxonomic authority In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon), and these groups are given ...

of the genera '' Berroa'', ''

Parantennaria ''Parantennaria'' is a genus of Australian plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae within the family Asteraceae. It is monotypic, with the only known species ''Parantennaria uniceps'', which is native to Victoria and New South Wales New South Wales ...

'', ''

Psychrophyton ''Raoulia'' is a genus of New Zealand plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae within the family Asteraceae. Many ''Raoulia'' species grow in alpine areas, forming very fine and dense growths. These compact growths form large amorphous cushion-like mas ...

'' and ''

Stuckertiella ''Gamochaeta'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. There has not always been agreement among botanists regarding its status as a recognized genus, but it has become more accepted in recent years.Nesom, G. L. 1990. The taxonom ...

''. The genus ''

Beauverdia ''Nothoscordum'' is a genus of New World plants in the onion tribe within the Amaryllis family. It is probably paraphyletic.Michael F. Fay, Paula J. Rudall, and Mark W. Chase. 2006. "Molecular studies of subfamily Gilliesioideae (Alliaceae)". ' ...

'' (family

Alliaceae Allioideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales. It was formerly treated as a separate family, Alliaceae. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, ''Allium''. ...

) was named after him by

Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter (10 January 1884 in Berlin – 17 April 1958 in Hamburg) was a German-Uruguayan botanist and mycologist. In 1908, he received his doctorate in Berlin with a dissertation on the genus ''Lycopodium''. From 1923 to 1939, h ...

, and plants with the specific epithet of ''beauverdiana'' honor him, examples being ''

Acacia beauverdiana ''Acacia beauverdiana'', commonly known as pukkati, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a rounded shrub or tree with upright to erect linear to narrowly ...

'' and ''Photinia beauverdiana''

Selected works

* ''Bulletin de L'Herbier Boissier V2: 1902'', (1902). * ''Contributions à la flore de l'Afrique australe'', 1913 – Contribution to the flora of southern Africa. * ''Monographie du genre Melampyrum L.'', 1916 – Monograph on the genus ''Melampyrum''. * ''Contribution à la Géographie botanique des Alpes de Savoie'', 1922 – Contribution to the

phytogeography Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution ...

of the

Savoie Savoie (; Arpitan: ''Savouè'' or ''Savouè-d'Avâl''; English: ''Savoy'' ) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Southeastern France. Located in the French Alps, its prefecture is Chambéry. In 2019, Savoie had a population o ...

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publications.

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