Biology:Antoine Duss
Antoine Düss (August 14, 1840 – May 5, 1924) was a Swiss botanist.
Père Düss was born in Hasle, Switzerland , graduated from the Gymnasium in Luzern and entered the Congregation du Saint-Esprit et du Saint-Coeur de Marie in Paris. Titled variably as Abbé, Pére (Father) or Reverend, he held teaching positions at the Collége de Fort de France on Martinique and at the College de Basse-Terre on Guadeloupe. He collected botanical specimens mainly on Guadeloupe and its dependencies and Martinique, but made also collecting trips to Antigua, Barbuda, Dominica, and Saint Lucia.[1]
He is honoured in the naming of Dussiella, which is a genus of fungi within the Clavicipitaceae family,[2] and Dussia, which is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.[3]
Sources
- Urban, Ignaz. Notae biographicae, Symb. Antill. 3:14,1900.
- Detailed biography
Complete bibliography
References
- ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022) (in German) (pdf). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ↑ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany) 13: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp.
- ↑ "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Dussia". Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&genus~Dussia&species~. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ↑ IPNI, Duss, http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Duss
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