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Jaques Étienne Gay

Jaques Étienne Gay

Swiss-French botanist

Jaques Étienne Gay (1786 in Switzerland – 1864) was a Swiss-French botanist, civil servant, collector and taxonomist. His name is associated with plants in standardised botanical nomenclature, e.g. Crocus sieberi J.Gay. He was the most famous of the students of botanist Jean François Aimée Gaudin with whom he began collecting plants at the age of 14. He was married to Rosalie Nillion.

image of Jacques Gay at Acta Horti Berg 1905
"J. Gay" redirects here. For other people, see John Gay (disambiguation).

The botanical genus Gaya[1] was named in his honour,[2] as well as the genus Neogaya belonging to the family Apiaceae.[3] Also the species Potamogeton gayi A.Benn. in 1892.[4]

Publications

  • Gay, Jacques Etienne. 1857. Recherches sur les caractères de la végétation du fraisier et sur la distribution géographique de ses espèces, avec la description de deux nouvelles. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Botanique) 4th ser. 8: 185–208
  • Gay, Jacques Etienne. 1821. Monographie des cinq genres de plantes que comprend la tribu des Lasiopetalées dans la famille des Buttneriacées.

List of botanists by author abbreviation

The standard author abbreviation J.Gay is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Tribe: Malveae (Malvaceae, from the subfamily Malvoideae)
  2. [2]
    Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. [3]
    "Neogaya Meisn. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Potamogeton gayi A.Benn. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  5. [5]
    International Plant Names Index.  J.Gay.

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