Étienne-Émile Desvaux (8 February 1830, in

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– 13 May 1854, in Mondoubleau) was a French

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. He died on May 13, 1854 (age 24) in the town of Mondoubleau. He was the author of a

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an grasses called "''Gramineae Chilenses''" (1853), a work that was included in

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of numerous grass species.IPNI
List of plants described or co-described by Desvaux.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Desvaux, Etienne-Emile French taxonomists 1830 births 1854 deaths People from Vendôme 19th-century French botanists Agrostologists