Étienne-Émile Desvaux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Vendôme, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Étienne-Émile Desvaux
- Étienne-Émile Desvaux (8 February 1830, Vendôme – 13 May 1854, Mondoubleau) was a French botanist. He developed an interest in botany at an early age, actively collecting plants from the age of 10.
- In July 1850, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Paris.
- He died on May 13, 1854 (age 24) in the town of Mondoubleau.He was the author of a monograph on Chilean grasses called "Gramineae Chilenses" (1853), a work that was included in Claude Gay's "Historia física y política de Chile".
- He described the genus Monandraira (synonym Deschampsia) and was the binomial authority of numerous grass species.
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