Jean Kickx (17 January 1803,

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– 1864) was a Belgian

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 ...

. His father, also known as Jean Kickx (1775–1831) was a botanist and

mineralogist Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical mineralogy, optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifact (archaeology), artifacts. Specific s ...

; his son

Jean Jacques Kickx Jean Jacques Kickx (27 January 1842, Ghent – 27 March 1887, Ghent) was a Belgian botanist. His father, Jean Kickx (1803–1864), and grandfather, also named Jean Kickx (1775–1831), were both botanists. He was educated in Ghent and Bonn, o ...

(1842–1887) was a professor of botany at the

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. In 1830 he obtained his PhD at

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, later serving as a professor of botany in

(1831–1835) and at the

(1835–1864). He was a co-founder of the .Biodiversity Heritage Library
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications The

mycological Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, food, traditional medicine, as well as entheogens, poison, and ...

genus ''Kickxella'' (order

Kickxellales The Kickxellales are an order of fungi classified under Kickxellomycotina. It contains the single family Kickxellaceae, which contains roughly 37 species as of 2014. It is not monophyletic In biological cladistics for the classificatio ...

) was named in his honor by Eugène Coumans.

Published works

He was the author of a treatise on

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ic flora native to

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that was issued after his death by his son as (1867). In the field of

malacology Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...

, he published (with Francis Joseph Adelmann, 1830). Other noteworthy written works by Kickx include: * , 1835 - Cryptogams found in the vicinity of

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, etc. * , 1841 - Notice involving some mushrooms of

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References

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