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3 unusual facts about Guy Lionnet


Guy Lionnet

In 1984, Mauritian botanist Deva Duttun Tirvengadum, a former director of the Mauritius Institute, renamed the endemic plant mangliye gran bwa as Glionnetia sericea, in honour of Guy Lionnet.

They also note that he successfully campaigned for the proclamation of the Aldabra Atoll as a World Heritage Site.

Edward Duyker ‘Lionnet, Joseph Guy (1922—2007)’, Dictionnaire de Biographie Mauricienne, no. 61, avril 2012, pp.



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