François Pellegrin
François Pellegrin (25 September 1881, in Paris's 6e arrondissement – 9 April 1965, in the Hôpital Bichat in the 18e arrondissement) was a French botanist, who specialised in the plants of tropical Africa.
François Pellegrin | |
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| Born | 25 September 1881 Paris 6e arrondissement |
| Died | 9 April 1965 (aged 83) Paris 18e arrondissement |
| Nationality | French |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Pellegr. |
He published some 623 plant names, and has been honoured in the specific epithets of many plant species, such as, for example, Bikinia pellegrinii, Euphorbia pellegrinii, Hymenostegia pellegrinii, Polyceratocarpus pellegrinii, and Sericanthe pellegrinii. He was also honoured in 1935 by botanist Hermann Otto Sleumer who published Pellegrinia, a genus of flowering plants from south America, belonging to the family Ericaceae.
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