Henri Ernest Baillon

Henri Ernest Baillon
Diploglottis cunninghamii, Baillon's Dictionnaire de botanique

Henri Ernest Baillon (30 November 1827 in Calais – 19 July 1895 in Paris) was French botanist and physician.

Baillon spent his academic life teaching natural history and publishing numerous works on botany. He was appointed to the Légion d'honneur in 1867, joined the Royal Society in 1894 and put together the Dictionnaire de botanique with Auguste Faguet's wood engravings.[1]

The standard author abbreviation Baill. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

  1. ^ Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms ... by Umberto Quattrocchi
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Baill.