Henri Lecoq (18 April 1802 – 4 August 1871) was a French botanist.

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...

mentioned this name in 1859 in the preface of his famous book

On The Origin of Species ''On the Origin of Species'' (or, more completely, ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life''),The book's full original title was ''On the Origin of Species by Me ...

as a believer in the modification of species. Darwin wrote: The work referenced by Darwin is Lecoq's "Étude de la Géographie Botanique de l’Europe", published in 1854. A number of plants carry the name of Lecoq in their descriptive names (se
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. Also in 1829, botanist

DC. Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle ...

published '' Lecokia'', a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

genus of

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s belonging to the family Apiaceae with its name honouring him. In addition a museum in his home town of

Clermont Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand (, ; ; oc, label=Auvergnat, Clarmont-Ferrand or Clharmou ; la, Augustonemetum) is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 146,734 (2018). Its metropolitan area (''aire d'attract ...

(France) is named after him.

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1871 deaths 1802 births 19th-century French botanists Proto-evolutionary biologists {{France-botanist-stub