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Jaques Étienne Gay (1786 in
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Jaques Étienne Gay (1786 in Switzerland
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– 1864) was a Swiss-French botanist, civil servant, collector and taxonomist. His name is associated with plants in standardised botanical nomenclature, e.g. '' Crocus sieberi'' J.Gay. He was the most famous of the students of botanist Jean François Aimée Gaudin with whom he began collecting plants at the age of 14. He was married to Rosalie Nillion.
The botanical genus '' Gaya'' was named in his honour, as
well as the genus '' Neogaya'' belonging to the family 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 p ...
. Also the species '' Potamogeton gayi'' in 1892.
Publications
* Gay, Jacques Etienne. 1857. Recherches sur les caractères de la végétation du fraisier et sur la distribution géographique de ses espèces, avec la description de deux nouvelles. ''Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Botanique)'' 4th ser. 8: 185–208 * Gay, Jacques Etienne. 1821. ''Monographie des cinq genres de plantes que comprend la tribu des Lasiopetalées dans la famille des Buttneriacées.''Related pages
List of botanists by author abbreviation
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* Aa – Hubertus Antonius van der Aa (1935–2017)
* A.A.Burb. – Andrew A. Burbidge (floruit, fl. 2016)
* A.A.Cocucci – (born 1959)
* A.A.Eaton – Alvah Augustus Eaton (1865–1908)
* A.A.Fisch.Waldh. – Alexandr Alexandro ...
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* Jacques Etienne Gay, in Spanish WikipediaWikispecies: Jacques Etienne Gay
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William Henry Fox Talbot
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Philip Barker Webb
Philip Barker Webb (10 July 1793 – 31 August 1854) was an English botanist.
Life
Webb was born to a wealthy, aristocratic family; his father was the lord of the manors of Witley and Milford, Surrey, Milford, in Surrey, England. Webb was ...
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