French botanist.
Jean Koechlin (28 August 1920 – 13 September 2009) was a French botanist and Christian hymn writer. The standard author abbreviation Koechlin is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Koechlin was born on 28 August 1920 in Basel, on the river Rhine, in northwestern Switzerland. He was a lifelong Plymouth Brethren, of the Exclusive Brethren that followed a division with William Kelly in 1881. Koechlin authored the book Flore et Végétation de Madagascar with Jean-Louis Guillaumet and Philippe Morat. It is the standard work on the vegetation of Madagascar. Koech