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Théophile Alexis Durand (4 September 1855, in
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Saint-Josse-ten-Noode ( French, ) or Sint-Joost-ten-Node ( Dutch, ), often simply called Saint-Josse in French or Sint-Joost in Dutch, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the north-eastern part o ...
– 12 January 1912) was a Belgian
botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
. He studied
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at the
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, afterwards travelling to
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, where he befriended botanist
Henri François Pittier Henri François Pittier de Fabrega (August 13, 1857 in Bex, Switzerland – January 27, 1950 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Swiss-born geographer and botanist who started Venezuelan National Park history. Biography He graduated as an engineer f ...
, with whom he collaborated on studies of Swiss flora. When Pittier later moved to
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, he provided Durand with dried specimens for study purposes.Botanic Garden Meise, History
biography
Both together edited the
exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...
-like series ''Plantae Costaricenses exsiccatae''. Beginning in 1879, he was associated with the
National Botanic Garden of Belgium Meise Botanic Garden (; ), until 2014 called the National Botanic Garden of Belgium (; ), is a botanical garden located in the grounds of Bouchout Castle in Meise, Flemish Brabant, just north of Brussels. It is one of the world's largest botan ...
, where in 1901, he succeeded
François Crépin François Crépin (30 October 1830 – 30 April 1903) was an important botanist of the 19th century and director of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium. Crépin was born in Rochefort, Belgium. The genus '' Crepinella'' (Araliaceae) is name ...
as its director. In 1910 he was appointed president of the
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, held in
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.Zürcher Herbarien, Universität Zürich
biographical information
With his daughter, illustrator Hélène Durand, he published "Sylloge Florae Congolanae" (1909). He also made significant contributions to the "Index Kewensis" (first supplement, 1901–1906). Some plants with the specific epithet of ''durandii'' commemorate his name, an example being '' Celtis durandii'' (family
Cannabaceae Cannabaceae is a small family of flowering plants, known as the hemp family. As now circumscribed, the family includes about 170 species grouped in about 11 genera, including '' Cannabis'' (hemp), '' Humulus'' (hops) and '' Celtis'' (hackberri ...
).


Selected works

* ''Catalogue de la flore liégeoise'', 1878. * "Index generum phanerogamorum", 1888. * "Primitiae florae costaricensis", 1891–1901 (with Henri François Pittier). * ''Matériaux pour la flore du Congo'', 1897–1901 (with
Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman (19 October 1866, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode – 1947) was a Belgian botanist and phycologist. He is known for his investigations of Congolese flora. From 1883 to 1887, he studied pharmacy at the Université lib ...
). * "Conspectus floræ Africæ, ou Énumération des plantes d'Afrique", 1895–1898 (with
Hans Schinz Hans Schinz (6 December 1858 – 30 October 1941) was a Swiss explorer and botanist who was a native of Zürich. In 1884 he participated in an exploratory expedition to German Southwest Africa that was organized by German merchant Adolf Lüd ...
). * "Sylloge florae congolanae hanerogamae 1909.OCLC WorldCat
published works


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Durand, Theophile Alexis 1855 births 1912 deaths People from Saint-Josse-ten-Noode 19th-century Belgian botanists 20th-century Belgian botanists