
Michel Adanson
French naturalist (1727–1806)
🗓️ April 7, 1727 • 📅 ACF Date: 17270407
Michel Adanson was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus. The standard author abbreviation Adans. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

















