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Maurice-Augustin Gomont

Maurice-Augustin Gomont (born 1839, in Rouen – died 1909, in Rouen) was a French phycologist.

Works

Gomont, M (1892). "Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique. 7 (16).

Honours

Gomontia, which is a genus of green algae, in the family Gomontiaceae and also Gomontiellaceae, which is a family of cyanobacteria, were both named in 1888 by botanists Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet and Charles Henri Marie Flahault after Maurice Gomont.
Gomontiellaceae are a family of cyanobacteria, with Gomontiella, a species named in 1901.

The standard author abbreviation Gomont is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

References

M. éD. Bornet (1909) Maurice-Augustin Gomont (1839–1909), Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, 56:6, 440–449, doi:10.1080/00378941.1909.10832078
Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2007). "Genus: Gomontia taxonomy browser". AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 25 September 2007.
"Gomontiellaceae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
International Plant Names Index. Gomont.

Further reading

Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved 27 January 2022.

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