Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (7 May 1804 – 15 April 1863) was a French
naturalist and doctor.
Moquin-Tandon was professor of
zoology at
Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of
botany and director of the
botanical gardens at
Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to
Corsica
Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...
to study the island's flora. In 1853, he moved to Paris, later becoming director of the
Jardin des Plantes and the
Académie des Sciences.
His books included ''L'Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries'' (1835–44), co-authored with
Philip Barker Webb and
Sabin Berthelot.
One of his specialities was the
family Amaranthaceae (The
Amaranth
''Amaranthus'' is a cosmopolitan genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants collectively known as amaranths. Some amaranth species are cultivated as leaf vegetables, pseudocereals, and ornamental plants. Catkin-like cymes of densely pack ...
family).
Several genera of plants have been named in his honour, including in 1838,
DC.
Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle ...
published ''
Moquinia'', a
genus of flowering plants from Brazil, in the
''Moquinia'' tribe within the
sunflower family. Then in 1954, Simone Balle published ''
Moquiniella
''Moquiniella'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae. It only contains one known species, ''Moquiniella rubra'' (A.Spreng.) Balle
It is native to Namibia and the Cape Provinces (region in South Africa).
T ...
'' a genus of
flowering plants from Africa, belonging to the family
Loranthaceae
Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites. The three terrestrial species are ''Nuytsia floribunda'' (the W ...
. Lastly in 2013, botanists (Cabrera) G.Sancho published ''
Moquiniastrum
''Moquiniastrum'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.
Its native range is Venezuelan Antilles to Southern Tropical America. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and Venezuelan Ant ...
'', a genus of
flowering plants from South America, belonging to the family
Asteraceae.
Bibliography
* Moquin-Tandon A. (1855–1856). ''Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France, contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés''. (4-5), 368 pp., J.-B. Baillière, Paris.
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volume 1*
volume 2*
References
External links
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French naturalists
1804 births
1863 deaths
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
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