Jean-Baptiste Ripart
Jean Baptiste Marie Joseph Solange Eugène Ripart was a French physician, botanist and mycologist.
During his career, he worked as a physician in Bourges. He conducted investigations of cryptogams and performed research of the genera Rosa and Rubus. With Pierre Alfred Déséglise and Léon Gaston Genevier, he described numerous botanical species.
The mycological genera of Ripartitella and Ripartites as well as the former plant genus Ripartia, all commemorate his name.