Étienne-Émile Desvaux (8 February 1830, in Vendôme – 13 May 1854, in Mondoubleau) was a French

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. 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

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on Chilean grasses called "''Gramineae Chilenses''" (1853), a work that was included in

Claude Gay Claude Gay, often named Claudio Gay in Spanish texts, (March 18, 1800 – November 29, 1873), was a French botanist, naturalist and illustrator. This explorer carried out some of the first investigations about Chilean flora, fauna, geology and geo ...

's "''Historia física y política de Chile''". He described the genus ''Monandraira'' (synonym '' Deschampsia'') and was the binomial authority of numerous grass species.IPNI
List of plants described or co-described by Desvaux.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Desvaux, Etienne-Emile French taxonomists 1830 births 1854 deaths People from Vendôme 19th-century French botanists Agrostologists