Charles Isidore Douin
Charles Isidore Douin (1858 – 1944) was a French bryologist who was a native of Bouville, Eure-et-Loir.[1]
Charles Isidore Douin | |
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| Born | 28 February 1858  Bouville |
| Died | 7 June 1944 (aged 86) Chartres |
| Occupation | Botanist |
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Biography
He taught school in Chartres, and was the author of a highly regarded work on mosses and liverworts titled Nouvelle flore des mousses et des hépatiques pour la détermination facile des espèces (1892). He also published a book involving bryology of Eure-et-Loir, Muscinées d'Eure-et-Loir (1906).[2]
The liverwort genus Douinia from the family Scapaniaceae is named in his honor in 1928.[3][4]
References
- Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia.
- Fakultät für Biologie und Psychologie Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften Department of Systematic Botany
- Google Books Muscinées d'Eure-et-Loir
- BFNA_ProvPubl Bryophyte Flora of North America, Provisional Publication, Douinia
- "Douinia (C.N.Jensen) H.Buch". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
- International Plant Names Index. Douin.
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