{{Short description|French botanist (1921–1971)}} '''René Paul Raymond Capuron''' (20 October 1921<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/JxOVJ8waFkmF |website=MatchID: Fichier des décès |title=CAPURON Rene |access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref> – 24 August 1971) was a French botanist. He was responsible for an extensive amount of work on the tree flora of Madagascar. Several plants with the species epithet of ''capuronii'' honor his name,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8ieqQs7hIREC&dq=%22Ren%C3%A9+Paul+Raymond+Capuron%22&pg=PA1826 CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names ..., Volume 1] by Umberto Quattrocchi</ref> examples being ''Podocarpus capuronii'' and ''Schizolaena capuronii''. {{botanist|Capuron|Capuron, René Paul Raymond |inline=y}}
==Works== Highlights of his work include: *''M. arillata'' — a new species of ''Mauloutchia'', formed from the collection of ''Myristicaceae'' specimens.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031012042003/http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/90/9/1293 American Journal of Botany]</ref> *''Takhtajania perrieri'' — the only extant representative of the family ''Winteraceae''.<ref>[http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ben175.html Botanical Electronic News]</ref> Capuron was the first to rediscover the plant, following its last sighting by Henri Perrier de la Bathie, back in 1909.
==Bibliography== *''Essai d'introduction à l'étude de la flore forestière de Madagascar'', Tananarive, ''Inspection Générale des Eaux & Forêts'', 1957, 125 pp. *''Rhopalocarpacées''. '''In:''' ''Flore de Madagascar et des Comores'', vol. 127, Paris, 1963, 41 pp. *''Révision des Sapindacées de Madagascar et des Comores''. '''In:''' ''Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle'', t. 19, Paris, 1969, 189 pp.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ACapuron%2C+Rene%CC%81.&qt=hot_author OCLC WorldCat] published works</ref>
==Legacy== Capuron is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of chameleon, ''Calumma capuroni'', which is endemic to Madagascar.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Capuron", p. 47).</ref> He is also honored in the names of several species of plant, also endemic to Madagascar. Such as ''Aponogeton capuronii'', ''Bulbophyllum capuronii'', ''Dalbergia capuronii'', ''Euphorbia capuronii'', ''Millettia capuronii'', ''Perrierodendron capuronii'', ''Podocarpus capuronii'', ''Schizolaena capuronii'', ''Staufferia capuronii'',<ref>{{cite web |title=''Staufferia capuronii'' Z.S.Rogers, Nickrent & Malécot {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77095593-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=18 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref> ''Stephanostegia capuronii'' and ''Tabernaemontana capuronii''.
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