Paul Auguste Danguy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Gagny, Île-de-France, France
About Paul Auguste Danguy
- Paul Auguste Danguy (7 August 1862, Gagny – 5 February 1942) was a French botanist. From 1885 to 1928 he worked at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where from 1913 onward, he served as deputy director in the laboratory of phanerogams.
- In 1888 he became a member of the Société botanique de France, in which, he was later named secretary (1891) and vice-president (1922).As a taxonomist he circumscribed the botanical genera Decarydendron, Hedycaryopsis, Schrameckia, Terminaliopsis and Thouvenotia as well as numerous species.
- The genus Danguyodrypetes (family Putranjivaceae) was named in his honor by Jacques Désiré Leandri.With Henri Lecomte, he was co-author of "Madagascar: les bois de la forêt d'Analamazaotra" (Madagascar; wood from the Analamazaotra forest, 1922).
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