Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux

Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux
Born27 July 1753
Died20 January 1838 (1838-01-21) (aged 84)
NationalityFrench
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
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]
  1. ^ "International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-26.
  2. ^ "Rousseauxia DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  3. ^ Blanckaert, Claude; Porret, Michel; Brandli, Fabrice (2006). L'encyclopédie méthodique, 1782-1832: des lumières au positivisme (in French). Librairie Droz. ISBN 978-2-600-00805-1.
  4. ^ "International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Desr.
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Desr.