Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux

Short description: French botanist

Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux

Born| 27 July 1753
Died| 20 January 1838 (1838-01-21) (aged 84)
Nationality| France
Scientific career
Fields| Botany
Pteridology
Author abbrev. (botany)| Desr.

Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux  (27 July 1753 – 20 January 1838) was a French botanist and pteridologist. He was a contributor to the "Encyclopedia Botanique" of Lamarck, from 1783 to 1796.

Desrousseaux produced many works on new plant species, creating 414 new records.[1]

In 1828, botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (DC.) published Rousseauxia, a genus of flowering plants from Madagascar, belonging to the family Melastomataceae and named in honour of Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux.[2]

In addition to his industrial activities, he was interested in botany, particularly ferns, and participated in the writing of volume IV of Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck's Encyclopédie botanique and in the Botanique volumes of the Encyclopédie méthodique. He was a member of the Société linnéenne de Paris. Working on many unknown species, he is the author of 414 new descriptions. He bought the Château de Vandières in 1816 that his family still lives in.[3][4]

The standard author abbreviation Desr. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

The standard author abbreviation Desr. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

## External links

* List of all genera and species described by this author in IPNI

## References

1. ↑ "International Plant Names Index". http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_authorAbbrev=Desr..
2. ↑ "Rousseauxia DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26572-1.
3. ↑ Blanckaert, Claude; Porret, Michel; Brandli, Fabrice (2006) (in fr). L'encyclopédie méthodique, 1782-1832: des lumières au positivisme. Librairie Droz. ISBN 978-2-600-00805-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=9p42uHqRXpMC&dq=Louis+Auguste+Joseph+Desrousseaux+botaniste&pg=PA555.
4. ↑ "International Plant Names Index". https://www.ipni.org/?q=author+std:Desr..
5. ↑ IPNI, Desr., http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Desr.
6. ↑ IPNI, Desr., http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Desr.

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