François Gagnepain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Raveau, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About François Gagnepain
- François Gagnepain (23 September 1866 – 25 January 1952) was a French botanist.
- The standard botanical author abbreviation Gagnep.
- is applied to plants described by Gagnepain.With Achille Eugène Finet, he named a number of species within the botanical family Annonaceae.
- The genus Gagnepainia (family Zingiberaceae) was named in his honor by Karl Moritz Schumann.
- The French Academy of Sciences awarded Gagnepain the Prix de Coincy for the year 1907.
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