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Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier (15 February 1834,
Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...
– 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


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List of plants described and co-described by Fournier. 1834 births 1884 deaths 19th-century French botanists Botanists with author abbreviations {{France-botanist-stub