Paul Auguste Danguy

{{Short description|French botanist (1862–1942)}}

Paul Auguste Danguy (7 August 1862 in Gagny – 5 February 1942) was a French botanist.

From 1885 to 1928 he worked at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where from 1913 onward, he served as deputy director in the laboratory of phanerogams. In 1888 he became a member of the Société botanique de France, in which, he was later named secretary (1891) and vice-president (1922).[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00378941.1942.10839801 Notice sur Paul Danguy / Taylor & Francis Online] Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France

As a taxonomist he circumscribed the botanical genera Decarydendron, Hedycaryopsis, Schrameckia, Terminaliopsis and Thouvenotia as well as numerous species.[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=2A4AC23ED217F31F562EABB3F9871481?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=Danguy&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch IPNI] List of plants described and co-described by Danguy The genus Danguyodrypetes (family Putranjivaceae) was named in his honor by Jacques Désiré Leandri.[https://books.google.com/books?id=6YIJqE3Qep0C&dq=%22Paul+Auguste+Danguy%22+1862&pg=PA725 CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 2] by Umberto Quattrocchi

With Henri Lecomte, he was co-author of "Madagascar: les bois de la forêt d'Analamazaotra" (Madagascar; wood from the Analamazaotra forest, 1922).[https://books.google.com/books?id=8jLFjgEACAAJ Madagascar: les bois de la forêt d'Analamazaotra] Google Books

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