Louis Auguste Deschamps

French botanist

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Louis-Auguste Deschamps (1765 in Saint-Omer – 1842 in Paris) was a French botanist and surgeon, who specialised in the flora of Java and Mexico.^[1]^[2]^[3] He is probably best known for his description of the World's largest flower- Rafflesia, when he was in Java between 1791 and 1794.

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^ Hocquette, Maurice (1970). Louis-Auguste Deschamps, 1765-1842: sa vie, son œuvre (in French). Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ Steenis, Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan; Steenis-Kruseman, M. J. van; Backer, Cornelis Andries (1954). Louis Auguste Deschamps. Order of the Trustees of the British Museum. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ "Deschamps, Louis Auguste (1765-1842) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 28 February 2022.