Jules Alexandre Daveau

{{Short description|French botanist (1852–1929)}}

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Jules Alexandre Daveau (29 February 1852, Argenteuil – 24 August 1929) was a French botanist known for his investigations of Portuguese flora.

As a teenager he began work as an apprentice gardener at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. In 1875, he was sent on a botanical expedition to Cyrenaica. He collected specimens for a Portuguese botanist Julio Augusto Henriques{{cite web| first=J. | last=Guimarães | title= Henriques, Júlio Augusto, 1838-1928 | date=January 2010 | url=http://bibdigital.bot.uc.pt/index.php?menu=4&language=eng&tabela=geral | publisher=bibdigital.bot.uc.pt (Biblioteca Digital de Botânica) | accessdate=9 October 2014}} on Berlenga Grande Island, Portugal.[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://almamater.uc.pt/referencias.asp%3Ff%3DBDUC8%26i%3D18080100%26t%3DDAVEAU%252C%2520JULES%2520ALEXANDRE%252C%25201852-1929&prev=/search%3Fq%3DJules%2BAlexandre%2BDaveau%2BHenriques%26safe%3Dactive%26biw%3D1600%26bih%3D732 Universidade De Coimbra]

From 1876 to 1893 he served as head gardener of the botanical gardens in Lisbon. Afterwards, he was curator in the herbarium and botanical garden in Montpellier.[http://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/static/database/sammlerdetails_en.php?id=107 UZH - Zürich Herbaria - Collector Details] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108205712/http://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/static/database/sammlerdetails_en.php?id=107 |date=2017-11-08 }} (short biography)[http://jardimformoso.blogspot.com/2009/03/jules-daveau-1852-1929.html Jardin Formoso] (translated biography)[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://maisbotanico.blogspot.com/2013/07/os-homens-do-botanico-1-jules-daveau.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DJules%2BAlexandre%2BDaveau%2BHenriques%26safe%3Dactive%26biw%3D1600%26bih%3D732 Mais Botanico] (biography)

Plants with the specific epithet of daveauanus are named after Daveau, an example being: Erigeron daveauanus.[https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ6PyhVuecwC&dq=%22Jules+Daveau%22+1852&pg=PA135 Google Books] The Names of Plants by D. Gledhill[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/gcc-91584 Plant List] Erigeron daveauanus (Sennen) Greuter