Jean Odon Debeaux (4 August 1826,

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– 20 February 1910,

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) was a French military pharmacist, botanist and

malacologist Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ...

. In 1854 he qualified as a pharmacist in

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, then joined the French Army, and from 1854 to 1859 was stationed in

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( Algiers,

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and in the region of

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). Later on, he participated in a military expedition to China (1860–62), on which he collected botanical and malacological specimens on stops in the Canary Islands and

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. Afterwards, he was stationed in Corsica (1870) and Perpignan (1872),JSTOR Global Plants
Debeaux, Jean-Odon (1826-1910) later returning to Algeria, where he worked as chief pharmacist at the hospital in Oran (1880–86). In 1898 he retired and settled in Toulouse. Most plant taxa with specific epithet of ''debeauxii'' commemorate his name, an example being ''Gymnocarpos debeauxii''. As a taxonomist, he circumscribed the

grass Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns a ...

genus ''Reimbolea''.

Selected works

* ''Catalogue des plantes observées dans le territoire de Boghar'', (1861). * ''Essai sur la pharmacie et la matière médicale des Chinois'', (1865). * ''Algues marines récoltées en Chine pendant l'expédition francaise de 1860-1862'', (1875). * ''Florule du Tché-foû (province de Chan-tong)'' (1877). * ''Recherches sur la flore des Pyrénées-Orientales'', (1878–80). * ''Contributions à la flore de la Chine'', (1879). * ''Révision de la Flore agenaise ; suivie de la flore du Lot-et-Garonne'', (1889). * ''Synopsis de la flore de Gibraltar'', (1889), with Gustave Dautez.IDREF.fr
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