Gustave Beauverd
Gustave Beauverd was a Swiss botanist, specializing in Pteridophytes, Bryophytes, and Spermatophytes.
For a period of time he worked at the "Herbier Bossier", and is remembered for his investigations of the genus Melampyrum. He was a co-author of the series "Icones florae Alpinae plantarum", and the author of many works on diverse botanical subjects. In 1931 he became a member of the Société botanique de France.
He is the taxonomic authority of the genera Berroa, Parantennaria, Psychrophyton and Stuckertiella. The genus Beauverdia was named after him by Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter, and plants with the specific epithet of beauverdiana honor him, examples being Acacia beauverdiana and Photinia beauverdianaSelected works
