He is noted for his extensive work describing the flora of China and Japan, based on the collections made by French Catholic missionaries in China, Armand David, Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, Paul Guillaume Farges, Jean-André Soulié, and others.
Most of Father Soulié's specimens were notably studied and defined by Adrien Franchet.
René Descartes | René Char | René Magritte | François-René de Chateaubriand | Adrien-Marie Legendre | René Goscinny | Leon René | René Jacobs | Rene Daalder | Rene Russo | René Lévesque | Rene Requiestas | René Kollo | René Clausen | René Clair | Rene Portland | René Clemencic | Rene Auberjonois | Adrien Brody | René Higuita | Rene Goulet | René Girard | François-René de La Tour du Pin, Chambly de La Charce | Adrien Tambay | Sherie Rene Scott | René Sergent | René Rémond | René Lussier | René Laennec | René II, Duke of Lorraine |
The IAPT determined that a prior synonym for the genus, Fauria Franch., too closely resembled the genus Faurea (Proteaceae), and thus conserved Nephrophyllidium as the accepted genus name.