Auguste Benoist Butter With Details Tapestry

Auguste Benoist Butter was a Swiss botanist who lived from 1872 to 1944. He is best known for his contributions to the taxonomy and systematics of tropical plants, particularly those of the family Melastomataceae. Butter served as a curator at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, where he worked extensively on the herbarium collections and published numerous papers on the taxonomy and classification of plants. In addition to his work on Melastomataceae, Butter also contributed to the study of other plant families, including Apocynaceae and Rubiaceae. He described many new species and genera of plants, and his work has been influential in shaping our understanding of the diversity of plant life in the tropics. Butter's...