Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé

Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé (13 March 1864, in Le Mans – 25 November 1918) was a French botanist and clergyman.

[1] Following a meeting with botanist Adrien René Franchet in 1900, he agreed to perform studies on the many thousands of plant specimens sent by collectors from the Far East.

From these shipments Léveillé is credited with describing around 2000 new species,[1] with many of the plants being co-described along with Father Eugène Vaniot (1846–1913).

During the same year he founded the Académie internationale de géographie botanique (International Academy of Botanical Geography).

[1] Numerous species are named in his honor, as well as the genus Leveillea (family Asteraceae), described by Eugène Vaniot in 1903.