Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (28 August 1784 – 12 July 1856) was a French

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 ...

. From 1816 he taught classes in

Angers Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou until the French Revolution. The i ...

, where from 1817 to 1838 he served as director of its

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. He described the botanical genera ''

Neslia ''Neslia'' is a monotypic plant genus in the family Brassicaceae. The only extant species is ''Neslia paniculata'' Neslia paniculata ''Neslia paniculata'' (commonly called ball mustard) is a plant species in the family Brassicaceae. The name co ...

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Mycenastrum ''Mycenastrum'' is a fungal genus in the family Agaricaceae. The genus is monotypic, containing one widely distributed species, ''Mycenastrum corium'', known by various common names: the giant pasture puffball, leathery puffball, or tough puffba ...

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Rostkovia ''Rostkovia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juncaceae. It was described in 1809 and was named after Prussian botanist Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Rostkovius. The genus is native to Ecuador, southern South America, New Zealand, and ...

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Didymoglossum ''Didymoglossum'' is a tropical genus of ferns in the family Hymenophyllaceae. It comprises more than 30 epilithic or low-epiphytic species under two subgenera.Desvauxia'' is named in his honor.

Works

*''Journal de Botanique, appliquée à l'Agriculture, à la Pharmacie, à la Médecine et aux Arts'' (1813-1815, 4 volumes). *''Observations sur les plantes des environs d'Angers'' (1818). *''Flore de l'Anjou ou exposition méthodique des plantes du département de Maine et Loire et de l’ancien Anjou'' (1827). *''Prodrome de la famille des fougères'' (1827). *''Sur le genre Mycenastrum'', In: Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique, Série 2 17: 143- 47(1842).Publications by Desvaux
Cybertruffle Note: He is not to be confused with French botanist

Étienne-Émile Desvaux Étienne-Émile Desvaux (8 February 1830, in Vendôme – 13 May 1854, in Mondoubleau) was a French botanist. He developed an interest in botany at an early age, actively collecting plants from the age of 10. In July 1850, he earned his Bache ...

(1830-1854, botanical abbrev. É.Desv.).

References

19th-century French botanists 1784 births 1856 deaths {{France-botanist-stub