Jacques Désiré Leandri, born 1903 in Corsica, died 1982, 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 ...

and mycologist. Leandri is remembered for botanical excursions in

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) and

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. He collected plants for scientific study from the years 1922 to 1980. The plant genus '' Leandriella'' from the family

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is named after him. As a taxonomist, he circumscribed many plants within the family Euphorbiaceae.IPNI
List of plants described & co-described by Leandri

Publications

* ''Les arbres et grands arbustes Malgaches de la famille des Euphorbiaceaes''. Naturaliste Malgache 4: 47–82 (1952) * ''Les Euphorbes Malgaches Epineuses et Charnues du Jardin Botanique de Tsimbazaz'', 144–154 (1954) with E. Ursch * ''Un Naturaliste du Muséum a la Recherche des Quinquinas: Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819–1877)'' Adansonia 6: 165–173 (1966)

References

* List of published works copied from an equivalent article at the Spanish Wikipedia.

External links

[PDF]Site du patrimoine mondial des Tsingy de Bemaraha et autres sites
(in French) 20th-century French botanists French mycologists 1903 births 1982 deaths {{France-botanist-stub