# Jean Nadeaud

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{{Short description|French naval surgeon, physician and botanist}}
'''Jean Nadeaud''' (1834 – 20 November 1898) was a French [naval surgeon](/source/naval_surgeon), physician and [botanist](/source/botanist).

From February 1856 to August 1859, he lived in [Tahiti](/source/Tahiti), where he studied and collected plants native to the island. In 1864, he received his doctorate from the faculty of medicine at [Montpellier](/source/University_of_Montpellier) with a thesis on [medicinal plants](/source/medicinal_plants) used in Tahiti, "''Plantes usuelles des tahitiens''".<ref>[http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/DB=2.1/SRCH?IKT=12&TRM=143248685 Plantes usuelles des tahitiens] SUDOC</ref><ref name=JS>[http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000326643 Nadeaud, Jean (1834-1898)] JSTOR Global Plants</ref>

In 1873, he published an enumeration of the plants of Tahiti that included dozens of taxa new to science, [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008423803 "''Enumération des plantes indigènes de l'île de Tahiti recueillies et classées''"]. His [herbarium](/source/herbarium) was acquired by [Emmanuel Drake del Castillo](/source/Emmanuel_Drake_del_Castillo), who sent some of its moss specimens to [bryologist](/source/bryologist) [Émile Bescherelle](/source/%C3%89mile_Bescherelle).<ref name=JS/>

He spent the last two years of his life in Tahiti as a physician and plant collector.<ref name=JS/> The moss genus ''Nadeaudia'' (family [Calomniaceae](/source/Calomniaceae)) was named in his honor by Émile Bescherelle.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355767#page/696/mode/1up BHL] Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications</ref>
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