François Gagnepain
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Template:Infobox scientist 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.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
With Achille Eugène Finet, he named a number of species within the botanical family Annonaceae.<ref>IPNI List of plants described & co-described by Achille Eugène Finet</ref> The genus Gagnepainia (family Zingiberaceae) was named in his honor by Karl Moritz Schumann.<ref>CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 2 by Umberto Quattrocchi</ref> The French Academy of Sciences awarded Gagnepain the Prix de Coincy for the year 1907.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Selected publications
- Topographie botanique des environs de Cercy-la-Tour (Nièvre), Société d'histoire naturelle d'Autun, 1900 - Botanical topography involving the environs of Cercy-la-Tour (Nièvre).
- Contributions à la flore de l'Asie orientale, 1905, (in collaboration with Achille Eugène Finet) - Contributions to the flora of eastern Asia.
- Contribution à l'étude géo-botanique de l'Indo-Chine, 1926 - Contribution to the geobotanical study of Indochina.<ref>Google Search (publications)</ref>