Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (23 December 1797 – 29 June 1853) was a French

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. Born in

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as the son of botanist

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (; 12 April 1748 – 17 September 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today. His classification was based on an e ...

, he received the degree of

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in 1824 with a treatise of the plant

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Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in 1845 he became professor of

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of plants. He was also president of the

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. De Jussieu was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the

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in 1850. His main publications were the ''Cours élémentaire de botanique'' (Paris) and the ''Géographie botanique'' (Paris, 1846), as well as several monographs, most notably the one on the family

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. In botanical references he is usually abbreviated as Adr. Juss., also sometimes as A. Juss., as his father already has the abbreviation Juss. The asteroid

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was named in honor of the de Jussieu family. In 1825, botanist Gaudich. published ''

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'', which is a

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of Australian shrubs in the family Euphorbiaceae, and named in Adrien-Henri de Jussieu's honour.

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