Georges Louis Marie Dumont de Courset

French botanist and agronomist (1746-1824).

Georges Louis Marie Dumont de Courset (16 September 1746 – 3 September 1824) was a French botanist and agronomist. Born near Boulogne, he studied in Paris and showed an aptitude for music and drawing. He joined the military when he was 17 and became a second lieutenant. Sent to the south of France, he visited the Pyrenees and caught a passion for botany. He gave up his military career and returned home to build an extensive garden that became famous for the diversity of plant species. The garden was a noteworthy example of cultivation without a natural water spring source He tried to influence

Abbreviations: Dum.Cours.
Occupations: botanist, agronomist
Citizenships: France
Languages: French
Dates: 1746-09-16T00:00:00Z – 1824-09-03T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Boulogne-sur-Mer
Direct attributions: 48 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 52 plants, 0 fungi

48 plants attributed, 4 plants contributed to52 plants:

Helianthemum oelandicum (Hoary Rock-rose) (L.) Dum.Cours. 1802
plant species in the cistaceae family
Helianthemum oelandicum, commonly called hoary rockrose, is a low-growing plant confined to rocky dry calcareous areas especially close to the sea.
Helianthemum syriacum (Syrian Rock-rose) (Jacq.) Dum.Cours. 1802
plant species in the cistaceae family
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Helianthemum lippii (L.) Dum.Cours. 1802
plant species in the cistaceae family
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Sonchus acaulis (Giant Dandelion) Dum.Cours. 1811
plant species in the asteraceae family
Sonchus acaulis is a plant species in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. It is found only on the Canary Islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
Helianthemum squamatum (L.) Dum.Cours. 1802
plant species in the cistaceae family
Helianthemum squamatum is a species of low woody herbaceous plant native to Spain and Algeria. It is the only known species able to extract water of crystallization from rock and is able to derive up to 90% of its fluid requirements from gypsum using this process. By comparing the isotope composition of the plant's sap water to the isotopic composition of free water in the soil and water of crystallization within gypsum it was discovered by Sara Palacio of the Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología and Juan Pedro Ferrio of the University of Lleida that between 70% and 90% of the sap water came from
Catalpa longissima (Haiti Catalpa) (Jacq.) Dum.Cours. 1801
plant species in the bignoniaceae family
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Barleria oenotheroides (Barleria Micans) Dum.Cours. 1811
plant species in the acanthaceae family
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Melaleuca diosmatifolia Dum.Cours. 1811
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Melaleuca diosmatifolia, commonly known as rosy paperbark and pink honey-myrtle is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is native to Queensland and New South Wales in Australia. It was formerly known as Melaleuca erubescens but is not closely related to Melaleuca diosmifolia although the species name has the same meaning. It has pointed, non-prickly leaves and cylindrical spikes of pink or purple flowers.
Genista ferox (Poir.) Dum.Cours. 1802
plant species in the fabaceae family
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Melaleuca citrina (Crimson Bottlebrush) (Curtis) Dum.Cours. 1802
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Melaleuca citrina, the common red bottlebrush, crimson bottlebrush, or lemon bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. Some Australian state herbaria continue to use the name Callistemon citrinus. It is a hardy and adaptable species, common in its natural habitat. It is widely cultivated, not only in Australia. It was one of the first Australian plants to be grown outside the country, having been taken to England in 1770 by Joseph Banks. Its showy red flower spikes, present over most of the year in an ideal situation, account for its
Mimosa mucronulata Dum.Cours. 1814
plant species in the fabaceae family
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Caragana halodendron (Russian Salt Tree) (Pall.) Dum.Cours. 1802
plant species in the fabaceae family
Caragana halodendron is a species of flowering plant in the pea family (Fabaceae). It is known by several common names, including common salt tree and Russian salt tree. It is native to Russia and southern Asia, but it can be found on other continents where it is an introduced species, and one that is often a noxious weed. This is a deciduous spiny shrub sprawling to a few meters in maximum width and up to three meters tall. Stems branch from the base and bear clusters of about four leaflets on sharp spurs. The ends of branches narrow to spines. Flowers also appear at the ends of spurs in
Salvia pendula (Pannonian Nodding Sage) Dum.Cours. 1801
plant species in the lamiaceae family
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Pinus romaniae Dum.Cours. 1811
plant species in the pinaceae family
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Linaria canadensis (Canada Toadflax) (L.) Dum.Cours. 1790
annual plant species in the plantaginaceae family
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Bidens odorata Dum.Cours. 1802
plant species in the asteraceae family
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Sideroxylon nigricans Dum.Cours. 1801
plant species in the sapotaceae family
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Rosa oblongifolia Dum.Cours. 1802
plant species in the rosaceae family
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Rosa kingstonia hort. ex Dum.Cours.
plant species in the rosaceae family
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Pisonia fragrans Dum.Cours. 1821
plant species in the nyctaginaceae family
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Pinus divaricata (Aiton) Dum.Cours. 1811
plant species in the pinaceae family
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Oxyphoeria foetida Dum.Cours. 1805
plant species in the asteraceae family
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Oxyphoeria Dum.Cours. 1805
plant genus in the asteraceae family
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Metrosideros pubescens Dum.Cours. 1814
plant species in the myrtaceae family
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Metrosideros fasciculata Dum.Cours. 1811
plant species in the myrtaceae family
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Metrosideros ciliaris Dum.Cours. 1811
plant species in the myrtaceae family
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Melaleuca tubata Dum.Cours. 1814
plant species in the myrtaceae family
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Melaleuca trinervia Dum.Cours. 1814
plant species in the myrtaceae family
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Melaleuca perfoliata Dum.Cours. 1814
plant species in the myrtaceae family
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Melaleuca lucida Dum.Cours. 1814
plant species in the myrtaceae family
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