| Charles Isidore Douin | |
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| Born | 28 February 1858  Bouville |
| Died | 7 June 1944 (aged 86) Chartres |
| Occupation | Botanist |
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Charles Isidore Douin (1858 – 1944) was a French bryologist who was a native of Bouville, Eure-et-Loir.
Biography
He taught school in Chartres, and was the author of a highly regarded work on mosses and liverworts titled Nouvelle flore des mousses et des hépatiques pour la détermination facile des espèces (1892). He also published a book involving bryology of Eure-et-Loir, Muscinées d'Eure-et-Loir (1906).
The liverwort genus Douinia from the family Scapaniaceae is named in his honor in 1928.
The standard author abbreviation Douin is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.References
- Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Misplaced Pages.
- Fakultät für Biologie und Psychologie Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften Department of Systematic Botany
- Google Books Muscinées d'Eure-et-Loir
- BFNA_ProvPubl Bryophyte Flora of North America, Provisional Publication, Douinia
- "Douinia (C.N.Jensen) H.Buch". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
- International Plant Names Index. Douin.
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