Dominique Clos (25 May 1821,

Sorèze Sorèze (; ) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. Population See also * Communes of the Tarn department The following is a list of the 314 communes of the Tarn department of France. The communes cooperate in the f ...

– 19 August 1908) was a French physician and

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 ...

. He studied medicine and sciences in

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

and

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

, obtaining his medical degree in 1845 and his PhD in natural sciences in 1848. In 1853 he succeeded

Alfred Moquin-Tandon Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (7 May 1804 – 15 April 1863) was a French Natural history, naturalist and doctor. Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany ...

as professor of botany at the

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, maintaining this position until his retirement in 1889.Prosopo
Sociétés savantes de France At Toulouse, he made major contributions to its

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is ...

and

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant biological specimen, specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sh ...

.ASNAT
biography From 1881 to 1908, he was a correspondent-member of the

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. He was the author of numerous works on descriptive botany, plant

teratology Teratology is the study of abnormalities of physiological development in organisms during their life span. It is a sub-discipline in medical genetics which focuses on the classification of congenital abnormalities in dysmorphology caused by ...

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 ...

and agricultural botany. As a

taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the science, scientific study of naming, defining (Circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxon, taxa (si ...

, he described many species from various plant families. Taxa with the specific epithet of ''closianus'' are named in his honor' an example being ''Astragalus closianus''.

Partial bibliography

* ''Etudier les fluides des végétaux et les comparer à ceux des animaux'',

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, (May 1851). * ''Première leçon faite à la Faculté des sciences de Toulouse, le 25 mai 1853, pour l'ouverture du cours de botanique'', Toulouse : impr. de Bonnal et Gibrac, (1853). * ''Fascicule d'observations de tératologie végétale'', Toulouse : impr. de Douladoure frères, (1859). * ''Considérations sur les graines envisagées du point de vue agricole'', Toulouse : impr. de Douladoure frères, (1859). * ''Coup-d'oeil sur la végétation de la partie septentrionale du département de l'Aude'',

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

: Maison Lafargue, (1863). * ''Coup d'oeil sur les principes qui servent de base aux classifications botaniques modernes'', Toulouse : Impr. Douladoure, (1869). * ''Le polymorphisme floral et la phytographie'', Paris : Au secrétariat de l'association, (1893).OCLC WorldCat
list of publications * ''L'Astragale en faux, plante fourragère'', Paris : au siège social de la Société nationale d'acclimatation de France, (1895).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clos, Dominique 1821 births 1908 deaths People from Sorèze 19th-century French botanists Academic staff of the University of Toulouse