Lucien Désiré Joseph Courchet (31 July 1851– 10 March 1924) was a French

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

known for his work in the fields of

plant anatomy Plant anatomy or phytotomy is the general term for the study of the internal structure of plants. Originally it included plant morphology, the description of the physical form and external structure of plants, but since the mid-20th century plant ...

and

physiology Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical ...

. In 1884 he received his

agrégation In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French public education system. Candidates for the examination, or ''agrégatifs'', become ''agrégés'' once they are admitted to the position of ''professe ...

, afterwards being appointed professor of botany at the ''École supérieure de pharmacie'' in

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

(1889). As a

taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...

he was author of the plant genus ''

Perriera ''Perriera'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Simaroubaceae. It is endemic to Madagascar. The genus name of ''Perriera'' is in honour of Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de ...

'' (family

Simaroubaceae The Simaroubaceae are a small, mostly tropical, family in the order Sapindales. In recent decades, it has been subject to much taxonomic debate, with several small families being split off. A molecular phylogeny of the family was published in 200 ...

Selected works

*''Étude sur le groupe des aphides et en particulier sur les pucerons du térébinthe & du lentisque'', 1878 – Study of

aphid Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea. Common names include greenfly and blackfly, although individuals within a species can vary widely in color. The group includes the fluffy white woolly aphids. A t ...

groups, in particular on aphids affecting

oak An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ''L ...

s and

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s. *''Étude sur les galles causées par des aphidiens'', 1879 – Study on

galls Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to be ...

caused by aphids. * Les Ombellifères en général et les espèces usitées en pharmacie en particulier, - An account of the Umbelliferae (

Apiaceae Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus ''Apium'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants ...

) with particular reference to those species having medicinal properties. *''Du noyau dans les cellules végétales et animales : structure et fonctions'', 1884 – The nucleus of plant and animal cells; structure and function. *''Recherches sur les chromoleucites'', 1888 – Research of chromoleucites. *''Traité de botanique, comprenant l'anatomie et la physiologie végétales et les familles naturelles'', (two volumes 1897–98) – Treatise of botany, including the anatomy and physiology of natural botanical families. Courchet made contributions towards the multi-volume series "''Flore Générale de L'Indo-Chine''" (primary editors

Paul Henri Lecomte Paul Henri Lecomte (8 January 1856, in Saint-Nabord, Vosges – 12 June 1934, in Paris) was a French botanist. In 1884, after attaining a number of degrees, Lecomte became a professor at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris. In addition to his teaching dut ...

and

François Gagnepain François Gagnepain (23 September 1866 – 25 January 1952) was a French botanist. The standard botanical author abbreviation Gagnep. is applied to plants described by Gagnepain. With Achille Eugène Finet, he named a number of species with ...

).World Cat Title
Flore Générale de L'Indo-Chine

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Courchet, Lucien Desire Joseph 1851 births 1924 deaths 19th-century French botanists People from Var (department) Plant physiologists 20th-century French botanists