Urbain Audibert
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Urbain Audibert (27 February 1789 – 22 July 1846) was a French nurseryman. He was born in Tarascon on 27 February 1789 and died on 22 July 1846. He made contributions to a few plant species descriptions.Notice sur Urbain Audibert, Journal d'agriculture pratique et de jardinage, Maison rustique du XIXe siècle, 1847, p. 433.
He collected plants in the vicinity of Montpellier with Alire Raffeneau Delile and Michel Félix Dunal, in Avignon with Esprit Requien and in the Pyrenees with George Bentham. He made herbarium specimens from plants cultivated in his nursery.[http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=61141 HUH] Index of Botanists
The genus Audibertia (family Lamiaceae) is named in his honor.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ahNMkgoNJ7IC&pg=PA51 Google Books] A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins by Archibald William Smith
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- [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Audib.&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&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 IPNI] List of plants described & co-described by Audibert.
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