> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 842](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33069084) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/22133-1) LSID 22133-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q981710) QID Q981710 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Le Monnier, \[Lemonnier\] Louis Guillaume (1717-1799), French botanist at Paris, pupil of Bernard de Jussieu, state physician, professor of botany at the Jardin du Roi (1758-1786), sent Michaux to the Near East, Aublet to Guyana, Desfontaines to North Africa and Labillardière to the Lebanon. **Abbreviated name**: *Le Monn.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Le Monn.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection G|G]] (10.000 collected by L. himself, furthermore by Commerson (3000), Labillardière (types Icon. pl. Syr. rar., 1000 specimens), Desfontaines, Michaux. Further material at [[Collection FI|FI]] (herb. Desfontaines) and [[Collection P|P]]. #### Note see Lasègue p. 54-65 for a description of the Le Monnier herbarium as it was bought by Benjamin Delessert, giving details on the constituent private herbaria. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 368; BM 3: 1088; CSP 8: 201; Dawson p. 528, 943; Dryander 1: 237, 3: 552, 5: 322; DSB 8: 176-178; IH 2: 430; Jackson p. 94; Lasègue p. 54-65, 574; LS 15197; Moebius p. 347; PR (alph.) (ed. 1: 5756-5757); Rehder 5: 503; TL-2/1: see index. - Candolle, A. P. de, Mém. Souvenirs 121. 1862. - Cohen, B., Mem. Amer. philos. Soc. 43. 1956 (657 p.; Franklin and Newton, with notes on L's work on electricity). - Cuvier, G., Notice historique sur Louis-Guillaume Lemonnier. Paris (Baudoin) Ventôse an ix \[1801\], 17 p. - Duprat, G., Les botanistes français en Amérique du Nord 231-252. 1957. - Fries, Th. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(4): 8, 11, 21, 1910; 1(5): 51. 1911; 1(6): 211, 301, 316, 435. 1912; 1(7): 84, 86. 1917. - Guillaumin, A., Les fleurs des jardins xxvii-xxviii. 1929. - Hulth, J. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 123, 124. 1916. - Lapeyrouse, P. P. de, Hist. abr. pl. Pyren. xxv-xxvi. 1813. - Nicolas, J. P., *in* G. H. M. Lawrence, ed., Adanson 1: 384 \[index\]. 1963. - O., Dict. Sci. méd. 6: 2. 1824. - Robbins, Garden J. 8(3): 80-81, 93. 1958. - Stafleu, F. A., Intr. Jussieu Gen. Pl. xxviii, xxx. 1964; Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 275, 278-280, 321, 324. 1971; also *in* Lawrence, Adanson 1: 140, 145, 239, 241. 1963. #### Eponymy *Moniera* \[sic\] P. Browne (1756), *Moniera* Loefling (1758), *Monniera* A. L. Jussieu (1789, *orth. var. of Moniera* Loefling), and *Monnieria* Linnaeus (1759, *orth. var.* of *Moniera* Loefling) are probably commemorating him. *Lemonniera* E. De Wildeman (1894), *Le-Monniera* Lecomte ex Baehni (1938), and *Neolemonniera* H. Heine (1960) are dedicated to G. Le Monnier, French botanist.