Auguste-Henri Cornut de la Fontaine de Coincy (1837,

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– 30 January 1903) was a French

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. A native of

, he received his education at the lycée in

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. Known for his investigations of flora native to

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, he was the author of "Ecloga plantarum hispanicarum", a five-part series on Spanish flora published from 1893 to 1901. He was also the author of several papers involving the botanical genus ''

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''. As a

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, he described the genus ''Rouya'' (family

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). The genus ''

Coincya ''Coincya'' is a genus of flowering plant that belongs to the family Brassicaceae. Three species of the plant are endemic to the British Isles, these being ''Coincya wrightii'' (Lundy cabbage), '' Coincya cheiranthos'' (nokkasinapit) and '' Coinc ...

'' (family

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) commemorates his name.Flora of North America
Coincya The "" is an award issued by the ''

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'' for excellence in taxonomic research.

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