French botanist, botanical illustrator and physician
Achille Richard was a French botanist, botanical illustrator and physician (27 April 1794 in Paris – 5 October 1852). The standard author abbreviationA.Rich. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]
Biography
Achille was the son of the botanist Louis-Claude Marie Richard (1754–1821).[a] He was a pharmacist in the French navy, and a member of several well-known societies of that time. He became a leading botanist, and his books remain valued for their clarity and precision.
1828 Monographie des orchidées des îles de France et de Bourbon (Monograph of orchids of the islands of France and Réunion),
1829 Mémoire sur la famille des rubiacées contenant la description générale de cette famille et les caractères des genres qui la composent (Memory on the family Rubiaceae, containing the general description of this family and characters of genera that compose it), (available online at Gallica)
1845 Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de L'Ile de Cuba (Ed. Sagra, Ramón de la). Botanique. Plantes Vasculaires. (Physical, Political and Natural History of the island of Cuba, Botany. Vascular plants.) (available online at Gallica)