Jacques Cambessèdes

Jacques Cambessèdes (1799–1863) was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.

In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands. From this expedition he published Excursions dans les iles Baleares (1826) and Enumeratio plantarum quas in insulis Balearibus collegit (1827).

He has several botanical species named after him, including Paeonia cambessedesii, a peony native to Majorca.

The standard author abbreviation Cambess. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

Botany of the Balearic Islands, translated from Spanish

^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

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Name	Cambessedes, Jacques
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Date of birth	1799
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Date of death	1863
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