Louis Gustave Chauveaud (12 December 1859 in Aigre – 1933 in

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) was a French

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, known for his studies of

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. From 1890 to 1895 he was associated with work done in the laboratory of botany at the École pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. In 1888 he received his

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for natural sciences, followed by doctorates in sciences (1891) and medicine (1892). For thirty years he served as director of the botanical laboratory at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. During this time period he also taught classes at the Sorbonne. In 1928 he was appointed president of the

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. The plant species ''Sedum chauveaudii'' (Raym.-Hamet) commemorates his name.

Principal works

* ''Recherches embryogéniques sur l'appareil laticifère des euphorbiacées, urticacées, apocynées et asclépiadées'', 1891 – Research on embryogenic

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s of Euphorbiaceae, Urticaceae,

Apocynaceae Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of the ...

and Asclepiadoideae. * ''La constitution des plantes vasculaires révélée par leur ontogénie'', 1921 – The formation of

vascular plants Vascular plants (), also called tracheophytes () or collectively Tracheophyta (), form a large group of land plants ( accepted known species) that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant. They al ...

revealed by their

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(published works)

References

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