Genus Chomelia
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For Pierre Jean Baptiste Chomel (1671–1740), French physician and botanist. He studied botany and medicine from an early age, took botanising lessons with French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, and obtained a doctorate in Paris in 1697. In 1700 he undertook a research project in the mountainous areas around Auvergne looking for medicinal plants and also evaluating the snowmelt water quality. He found many unknown plant species, which he sent to the Jardin du Roi. Between 1703–1720 he continued this research, communicating his findings with the Academy of Sciences. He became a partner in this Academy in 1707 and was elected dean of the faculty in 1738. He authored Abrege de l’Histoire des Plantes Usuelles (first edition 1712, last published 1803), containing herbal plants that had ‘proven’ medicinal value and in which he provided French and Latin names.