Auguste-Henri de Coincy
Auguste-Henri Cornut de la Fontaine de Coincy was a French botanist.
A native of Lille, he received his education at the lycée in Sens. Known for his investigations of flora native to Spain, he was the author of "Ecloga plantarum hispanicarum", a five-part series on Spanish flora published from 1893 to 1901. He was also the author of several papers involving the botanical genus Echium.
As a taxonomist, he described the genus Rouya. The genus Coincya commemorates his name. The "" is an award issued by the Société botanique de France for excellence in taxonomic research.
