Émile Burnat (21 October 1828 in

Vevey Vevey (; frp, Vevê; german: label=former German, Vivis) is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne. The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used. It was the seat of the district of ...

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– 31 August 1920) was a Swiss

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 ...

He began herborizing while still in his teens, later working at the ''Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques'' in

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. He is remembered for investigations of flora found in the

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. His impressive

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is now part of the botanical conservatory in Geneva. Burnat's name is lent to the botanical genus ''

Burnatia ''Burnatia'' is a genus in the family Alismataceae. It includes only one currently recognized species, ''Burnatia enneandra''. It is native to tropical and southern Africa from Senegal to Tanzania to South Africa South Africa, officially ...

'' and the

saxifrage ''Saxifraga'' is the largest genus in the family Saxifragaceae, containing about 465 species of holarctic perennial plants, known as saxifrages or rockfoils. The Latin word ''saxifraga'' means literally "stone-breaker", from Latin ' ("rock" or " ...

cultivar A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, ...

''Saxifraga × burnatii''.

Written works

* ''Flore des Alpes maritimes ou Catalogue raisonné des plantes qui croissent spontanément dans la chaîne des Alpes maritimes, etc.''; (7 volumes 1892–1931, with

John Isaac Briquet John Isaac Briquet (13 March 1870 in Geneva – 26 October 1931 in Geneva) was a Swiss botanist, director of the ''Conservatoire Botanique'' at Geneva. He received his education in natural sciences at Geneva and Berlin,

and François Cavillier). * ''Catalogue raisonné des Hieracium des Alpes Maritimes''; (1883, with

August Gremli August Gremli (15 March 1833 – 30 March 1899) was a Swiss physician and botanist born in Kreuzlingen. He studied medicine in Berlin and Munich, and afterwards, trained as a pharmacist in Karlsruhe. From 1876, he worked as a curator in the herbar ...

References

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''Les collections botanique Emile Burnat''
(in French) 1828 births 1920 deaths People from Vevey 19th-century Swiss botanists {{switzerland-botanist-stub