Paul Guillaume Farges
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
This article needs additional citations for verification. (March 2013) |
Father Paul Guillaume Farges (1844–1912) was a French Catholic missionary, botanist and plant collector, based for much of his life (from 1867) in China, serving at Chongqing from 1892 until his death.
He collected over 4,000 plant specimens, including numerous species new to science, which were sent back to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, where they were named and described by Adrien Franchet.
His name is commemorated in several plants, including Abies fargesii, Corylus fargesii, Decaisnea fargesii, Salix fargesii, and Torreya fargesii. Most notably, the bamboo genus Fargesia is named for him.
See also
References
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles needing additional references from March 2013
- All articles needing additional references
- Botanists with author abbreviations
- Articles with Botanist identifiers
- 19th-century French botanists
- Botanists active in China
- Roman Catholic missionaries in Sichuan
- Roman Catholic missionaries in Tibet
- 1844 births
- 1912 deaths
- Missionary botanists
- 20th-century French botanists
- Catholic Church in Chongqing
- All stub articles
- French botanist stubs