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François Joseph Lestiboudois
François Joseph Lestiboudois (20 January 1759 – 26 July 1815) was a French botanist. Born at Lille, he was the son of Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois (1715–1804), a professor of botany at the ''École centrale du département du Nord à Lille'' and was the father of botanist Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois (1797–1876). Lestiboudois was a professor of botany at Lille and a member of the ''Société des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts de Lille''. (biographical information) He is best remembered for publication of ''Botanographie belgique'' (first edition in 1781). He was also the author of ''Botanographie universelle, ou, Tableau général des végétaux'' (1804).WorldCat Identities [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 word (''botanē'') meaning "pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – edible, med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
