François Hérincq (4 June 1820 – 15 June 1891) was a French botanist and gardener at the

Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

in Paris. He was also the editor of ''"L'Horticulteur français, journal des amateurs et des intérêts horticoles"'', which was published from 1851-1872, illustrating some 414 plants. The botanical genus ''Herincquia'' (family

Gesneriaceae Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), wi ...

) is named in his honor.

Publications

*''"L'Horticulteur Francais de Mil Huit Cent Cinquante Et Un: Journal Des Amateurs Et Des Interets Horticoles"'' - François Hérincq (1851-1872) *''"Flore des jardins de l'Europe, manuel général des plantes, arbres et arbustes"'' - Antoine Jacques, François Hérincq, Charles Naudin (1860) *''"Le Règne végétal divisé en traité de botanique générale, flore médicale et usuelle, horticulture botanique"'' - François Hérincq (1864) *''"Le nouveau jardinier illustré"'' (1866) *''"Il n'y a pas de sève descendante, extrait des dissertations sur la végétation"'' - François Hérincq (1867) *''"Observations critiques sur l'origine des plantes domestiques"'' - François Hérincq (1869) *''"La Verite Sur Le Pretendu Silphion de La Cyrenaique"'' - Francois Herincq (1876) *''"Végétaux d'ornement : donnant des notions générales sur l'horticulture florale"'' - François Hérincq, Aristide Dupuis et A. Pilon et Cie (1884)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Herincq, Francois 1820 births 1891 deaths People from Villejuif 19th-century French botanists French gardeners