Joseph Duval-Jouve, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Boissy-Lamberville, Normandy, France
About Joseph Duval-Jouve
- Joseph Duval-Jouve (August 7, 1810 – August 25, 1883) was a French botanist born in Boissy-Lamberville.
- He was the father of histologist Mathias-Marie Duval (1844-1907). He taught classes at the college in Grasse (1832–52), afterwards serving as an academic inspector in Algiers, Strasbourg and Montpellier.
- A portion of his herbarium was donated to the faculty of sciences at Montpellier. He specialized in research of the family Poaceae and the genus Equisetum.
- The plant genus Jouvea is named in his honor.
- He is the taxonomic authority for the grass genus Loretia.
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