Gustave Beauverd (1867–1942) was a Swiss botanist, specializing in Pteridophytes, Bryophytes, and Spermatophytes.
For a period of time he worked at the "Herbier Bossier",Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings: A Glossary by F. A. Sharr and is remembered for his investigations of the genus Melampyrum.Google Books Monographie du genre Melampyrum He was a co-author of the series "Icones florae Alpinae plantarum",BHL 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.Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
He is the taxonomic authority of the genera Berroa, Parantennaria, Psychrophyton and Stuckertiella.IPNI List of plants described & co-described by Beauverd. The genus Beauverdia (family Alliaceae) was named after him by Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter,CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms by Umberto Quattrocchi and plants with the specific epithet of beauverdiana honor him,Missouri Botanical Garden Photinia beauverdiana examples being Acacia beauverdiana and Photinia beauverdiana
Selected works Bulletin de L'Herbier Boissier V2: 1902, (1902). Contributions à la flore de l'Afrique australe, 1913 – Contribution to the flora of southern Africa. Monographie du genre Melampyrum L., 1916 – Monograph on the genus Melampyrum. Contribution à la Géographie botanique des Alpes de Savoie, 1922 – Contribution to the phytogeography of the Savoie Alps.Google Search publications.
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