Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans

Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans (30 October 1825, Brussels – 8 January 1871, Ghent) was a Belgian Catholic priest and botanist.

In 1848 he obtained his ordination, later serving as a curate in Ghent (from 1853). In 1864 he became a member of the Académie royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, followed by a professorship at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1866. From 1868 to 1871 he was director of a Franciscan convent in Ghent.[1]

As a taxonomist he identified the genus Fittonia (family Acanthaceae).[2] The genus Coemansia is named in his honor.[3]

Selected works

  • Monographie du genre Pilobolus, Tode, spècialement ètudiè au point de vue anatomique et physiologique, 1861 - Monograph of the genus Pilobolus.
  • Spicilège mycologique, 1862 - Mycological scrapbook.
  • Notices biographiques sur quelques lichenographes celebres, 1864 - Biographical notices of some celebrated lichenologists.
  • Monographie des Spenophyllum d'Europe (with Jean Jacques Kickx), 1864 - Monograph on Sphenophyllum of Europe.[4]
  • Description de la flore fossile du premier ètage du terrain crètacè du Hainaut, 1867 - Description of fossil flora from the first stage of the Cretaceous terrain in Hainaut.[5]

Coemans issued the exsiccata Cladoniae Belgicae exsiccatae, quas collegit et distribuit, schedulis criticis additis, Eugenius Coemans.[6]

The standard author abbreviation Coem. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

References

  1. ^ ODIS - Database Intermediary Structures Flanders (biographical sketch)
  2. ^ IPNI List of plants described by Coemans
  3. ^ Journal of Botany, British and Foreign Robert Hardwicke, 1879
  4. ^ Google Books Monographie des Spenophyllum d'Europe
  5. ^ WorldCat Identities (published works)
  6. ^ "Cladoniae Belgicae exsiccatae, quas collegit et distribuit, schedulis criticis additis, Eugenius Coemans: IndExs ExsiccataID=534444630". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Coem.