Genus Guilleminea

For Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin (1796–1842), French botanist, traveller and author. He studied with Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher (1763–1841) and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841) and later became curator of the herbarium and library of botanist Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773–1784). In 1827 he worked as an aide-réparateur at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle and in 1834 he succeeded Adolphe Brongniart (1801–1876) as an assistant naturalist to the chair of botany. He was co-author with Achille Richard and George Samuel Perrottet of a work on the flora of Senegambia (present-day Senegal and Gambia) titled Florae Senegambiae Tentamen (1830–1833).