
Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier (15 February 1834,
Paris
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– 10 June 1884) was a French
botanist.
He was particularly interested in
fern
A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes except ...
s. He was a member of the
Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique.
The genus ''
Fourniera
''Cyathea'' is a genus of tree ferns, the type genus of the fern order Cyatheales.
The genus name ''Cyathea'' is derived from the Greek language, Greek ''kyatheion'', meaning "little cup", and refers to the cup-shaped Sorus, sori on the undersi ...
'' (family
Cyatheaceae
The Cyatheaceae are a family of ferns, the scaly tree ferns, one of eight families in the order Cyatheales in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Alternatively, the family may defined much more broadly (Cyatheaceae ' ...
) is named in his honor.
Google Books
Etymological Dictionary of Grasses
Works
* Articles in '' Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France'':
** ''Sur la valeur du genre Aconiopteris'' - 1867, n° 14 - p. 261
** ''Sur les hyménophyllées recueillies dans l'Amérique centrale par MM. Ch. Wright, Fendler et Th. Husnot'' - 1868, n°15 - p. 143
** ''Sur les fougères de la Nouvelle-Calédonie'' - 1869, n°16 - p. 389 à 422
** ''Sur deux Pellaea nouveau'' - 1869, n°16 p. LXVIII
** ''Sur deux fougères nouvelles du Nicaragua'' - 1870, n°17 - p. 236
** ''Sur les hyménophyllées recueillies dans l'Amérique centrale par MM. Ch. Wright, Fendler et Th. Husnot'' - 1872, n°19 - p. 239
** ''Sertum Nicaraguense'' - 1872, n°19 - p. 247
** ''Sur le genre Bommeria'' - 1880, n°27 - p. 327
* With Émile Bescherelle
Émile Bescherelle (3 January 1828, Paris – 26 February 1903) was a French botanist and bryologist.
Bescherelle is known for his analysis of bryological species from diverse locations that included the French West Indies, the Mascarene Isla ...
- ''Mexicanas plantas nuper a collectoribus expeditionis scientificae allatas: aut longis ab annis in herbario musei parisiensis depositas praeside J. Decaisne''. Paris - typographeo reipublicae, 1872
* ''Felices nova-Caledoniae. Enumeratio monographica'' - Annales des sciences naturelles, 1873, n°18
* ''Sur les fougères et les lycopodiacées des îles Saint-Paul et Amsterdam'' - Compte-rendu de la société botanique, 1875, n°81 - p. 1139
* ''Fougères nouvelles introduites par M. J. Linden'' - L'illustration horticole, 1876, n°23 - p. 99
* ''Comptes Rendus'' - Congrès International de Botanique Horticole, Paris, 1878 - p. 227-252
References
External links
IPNI
List of plants described and co-described by Fournier.
1834 births
1884 deaths
19th-century French botanists
Botanists with author abbreviations
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