Desfontaines, Rene Louiche (1752 - 1833)

Summary

Rene Desfontaines was appointed Professor of Botany in the Jardin des Plantes in 1786. His association with Australia was through his description of a large number of plants brought back to France by Baudin's expedition of 1801-1803. This expedition visited coastal areas from north-western Western Australia to South Australia, as well as calling at King Island in Bass Strait and Port Jackson, New South Wales. He did not visit Australia.

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Chronology

1804

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus angustifolia Desf. (= Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. (1806))

1829

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus pulchella Desf.

1829

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus populifolia Desf. (= Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm. (1793))

1829

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus perfoliata Desf. (= Eucalyptus globulus Labill. (1799))

1829

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus discolor Desf. (name only = Eucalyptus pilularis Sm. (1797))

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q545953. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/41931980. Details
• 'Desfontaines, Rene Louiche (17520214-18331116)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1497224. Details

See also

• Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details