René Viguier (19 May 1880, in Paris – 17 January 1931, in

Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

known for his investigations of plants within the family Araliaceae. He worked as a préparateur at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle with Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, afterwards serving as ''maître de conférences'' at the Sorbonne. In 1912 he collected botanical specimens in Madagascar with

Jean-Henri Humbert Jean-Henri Humbert (24 January 1887 – 20 October 1967) was a French botanist born in Paris. He studied physics, chemistry and natural sciences in Rennes and Paris, and following a scientific excursion to Madagascar, he worked as a university as ...

. From 1919 to 1931 he was a professor of botany at the University of Caen as well as director of city's botanical garden.Biodiversity Heritage Library
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publicationsProsopo
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by Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton He was a member of the Société botanique de France (from 1904), the Société linnéenne de Lyon (from 1921) and the Société linnéenne de Normandie (from 1919). In 1927 he founded the ''Archives de botanique''. The

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awarded him the Prix de Coincy for 1909. The grass genus ''

Viguierella ''Viguierella'' is a genus of Madagascan plants in the grass family Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos ...

'' was named in his honor by Aimée Antoinette Camus (1926). Most plant taxa with the specific epithet of ''viguieri'' are also named after him, an example being the grass species ''

Cephalostachyum viguieri ''Cephalostachyum viguieri'' is a plant in the grass family in the subfamily Bambusoideae (bamboo). It is native to Madagascar, where it was collected by René Viguier René Viguier (19 May 1880, in Paris – 17 January 1931, in Caen) was a Fren ...

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Selected works

* ''Recherches anatomiques sur la classification des Araliacées'', 1906 – Anatomical research on the classification of Araliaceae. * ''Contribution à l'étude de la flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie : Araliacées'', 1913 – Contributions to the study of

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n flora, Araliaceae. * ''Guttifères nouvelles de Madagascar'', 1914 (with Jean-Henri Humbert) – New

Guttiferae The Clusiaceae or Guttiferae Juss. (1789) (''nom. alt. et cons.'' = alternative and valid name) are a family of plants including 13 genera and ca 750 species. Several former members of Clusiacae are now placed in Calophyllaceae and Hypericaceae. ...

of Madagascar.WorldCat Search
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Viguier, Rene 1880 births 1931 deaths Academic staff of the University of Caen Normandy 20th-century French botanists