Louis Athanase Chaubard

Louis Athanase Chaubard (18 March 1781[1] in Agen – 1854) was a French botanist and naturalist.

With Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778-1846), he was co-author of Nouvelle Flore du Péloponèse et des Cyclades (New flora of the Pelopennesus and the Cyclades).

[2] He also made contributions to Jean Florimond Boudon de Saint-Amans' Flore agenaise ou description méthodique des plantes observées dans le département de Lot-et-Garonne, etc.

Other noted works by Chaubard are: The plant genus Chaubardia (family Orchidaceae) is named in his honor.

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Chaubardia heteroclita Orchi, a part of the genus named in Chaubard's honour