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{{short description|French botanist (1852-1915)}}
'''Edmond Gustave Camus''' (1852 – 22
August 1915) was a French [[pharmacist]] and [[botanist]] known for his work with [[orchid]]s.
A pharmacist by vocation, he was a resident of [[L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise|L'Isle-Adam]], a community near [[Paris]]. He was the father of botanist [[Aimée Antoinette Camus]] (1879–1965), with whom he collaborated on several projects, and the painter [[Blanche-Augustine Camus]] (1881-1968).<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/pg/female.artists.in.history/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1631340263817523 Female Artists in History: Blanche Augustine Camus (French painter)]</ref> For a period of time, he served as vice-president of the [[Société botanique de France]].<ref>[http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2007/pres2007-0556-1.pdf The University of Chicago Library] Storage.lib</ref><ref>[http://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/static/database/sammlerdetails_de.php?id=1237 Zurich herbaria] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402134318/http://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/static/database/sammlerdetails_de.php?id=1237 |date=2015-04-02 }} Sammler Details</ref>
As a [[taxonomy (biology)|taxonomist]], he was the [[binomial authority]] of many species, most notably within the family [[Orchidaceae]]. With Aimée Camus, he described numerous species from the family [[Salicaceae]].<ref>[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=E.G.Camus&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI] List of plants described and co-described by Edmond Gustave Camus.</ref>
== Selected works ==
* ''Iconographie des orchidées des environs de Paris''. Paris: 1885 – Iconography of orchids from the environs of Paris.
* ''Catalogue des plantes de France, de Suisse et de Belgique''. 1888 – Catalog of plants from France, [[Switzerland]] and [[Belgium]].
* ''Monographie des orchidées de France''. Paris: 1894 – Monograph of orchids from France.
* ''Orchidées hybrides, ou, Critiques du Gers''. 1898 – Orchid hybrids.
* ''Les plantes médicinales indigènes''. 1901 – Indigenous medicinal plants.
* ''Classification des saules d'Europe et monographie des saules d'France'' (with Aimée Camus). Paris: J.Mersch, 1904-5 – Classification of [[willow]]s found in Europe and a monograph of French willows.
* "A Contribution to the Study of Spontaneous Hybrids in the European Flora" (published in English, 1907).
* ''Monographie des orchidées de l'Europe: de l'Afrique septentrionale, de l'Asie Mineure et des provinces Russes transcaspiennes'' (with [[Paul Bergon]], Aimée Camus). Paris: Jacques Lechevalier, 1908 – Monograph of orchids from Europe, northern Africa, [[Asia Minor]] and the Russian Trans-[[Caspian Sea|Caspian]] provinces.
* ''Iconographie des orchidées d'Europe et du bassin Méditerranéen'', (with Aimée Camus). Paris: P. Lechevalier, 1921-1929 – Iconography of orchids from Europe and the [[Mediterranean Basin]].
He also made notable contributions to the multi-volume ''Flore de France: Ou, Description Des Plantes Qui Croissent Spontanément en France, en Corse Et en Alsace-Lorraine''. <ref>[https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Edmond-Gustave+Camus%22 Google Search] (publications)</ref>
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