Louis Claude Richard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis Claude Richard

French botanist

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1754

Place of Birth: Versailles, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 06-Jun-1821

Profession: botanist, botanical illustrator, bryologist, pteridologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Louis Claude Marie Richard (19 September 1754 – 6 June 1821) was a French botanist and botanical illustrator. Richard was born at Versailles.
Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical specimens in Central America and the West Indies.
On his return he became a professor at the École de médecine in Paris. His books included Demonstrations botaniques (1808), De Orchideis europaeis (1817), Commentatio botanica de Conifereis et Cycadeis (1826) and De Musaceis commentatio botanica (1831). He gave us the special description terminology for the orchids, such as pollinium and gynostemium. The genus Richardia Kunth, (Araceae) was named in his honor.
It is now a synonym of the genus Zantedeschia . This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Rich.
when citing a botanical name.His son was another notable botanist, Achille Richard. He also discovered Morgat in the 1880s.