Casimir Roumeguère

Casimir Roumeguère (15 August 1828, Toulouse – 29 February 1892, Toulouse) was a French botanist and mycologist.

He served as director of the journal Revue mycologique.^[1] His collections of fungi are included in several exsiccatae, including "Fungi Gallici exsiccati", "Fungi exsiccati praecipue Gallici",^[2] and "Fungi selecti exsiccati".^[3] His collection of algae is part of the exsicattae series: "Algues de France".^[4]

In addition to his botanical/mycological research, he published a few works in the fields of geology, conchology and archaeology.^[5][6]

Eponymy

• Roumegueria: name of genus introduced by (Pier Andrea Saccardo) Paul Christoph Hennings (1908).
• Roumegueriella: name of genus introduced by Carlos Luigi Spegazzini (1880).
• Roumeguerites: name of genus introduced by Petter Adolf Karsten (1879).^[7]

The specific epithet of roumeguerii also bears his name; an example being the mycological species Camarosporium roumeguerii.^[8]

Selected writings

• Des lichens et en particulier des lichens des environs de Toulouse pouvant être utilisés dans l'économie domestique, la médecine et les arts industriels, 1860 – Lichens, in particular, lichens found in the vicinity of Toulouse.
• Cryptogamie illustrée, ou, Histoire des familles naturelles des plantes acotylédones d'Europe / coordonnée suivant les dernières classifications et complétée par les recherches scientifiques les plus récentes. Famille des lichens, 1868 – Illustrated cryptogamy; history involving acotyledon plants of Europe.
• Nouveaux documents sur l'histoire des plantes cryptogames et phanérogames des Pyrénées, 1876 – New documents on the history of cryptogams and phanerogams of the Pyrénées.
• Statistique botanique du département de la Haute-Garonne, 1876 – Botanical statistics involving the department of Haute-Garonne.
• Flore mycologique du département de Tarn-et-Garonne, 1879 – Mycological flora involving the department of Tarn-et-Garonne.^[9]

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