Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse

Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse
Quartz prase. Found by Picot de Lapeyrouse and Dolomieu in 1793
Volumes of the herbarium, of Philippe Picot de Lapeyrouse MHNT

Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse or La Peirouse, Baron de Lapeyrouse. (20 October 1744, Toulouse - 18 October 1818, château de Lapeyrouse (Haute-Garonne) was a French naturalist.

In 1782 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The genus Lapeirousia in the family Iridaceae was named after him by his friend Pierre André Pourret, and not, as is sometimes erroneously stated, after the French mariner, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse.[1][2]

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  1. Chittenden, Fred J. Ed., Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, Oxford 1951
  2. Clos, M. D. Pourret et son Histoire des Cistes. Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences inscriptions et belles-lettres de Toulouse. 1858. pp. 244-265 (p. 248).
  3. "Author Query for 'Lapeyr.'". International Plant Names Index.