Denis Barabé wins the Gandoger prize from the Société botanique de France

This past January, Denis Barabé and his colleague Marc Gibernau (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France) jointly received the Gandoger prize for phanerogamy (the study of flowering plants) for the year 2024.

A great honor for a Québec botanist and researcher

Awarded by the Société botanique de France (SBF) since 1929, this prestigious prize recognizes the quality of their work and publications, as well as their exceptional contribution to the discipline, in particular with regard to seed-bearing plants.

The prize pays tribute to their accomplishments in botany, especially their work on the Araceae of French Guyana. For over 20 years, in the course of several missions on the ground in that country, they conducted research on the biology – morphology, anatomy, development, physiology, pollination and systematics – of that family of plants. A good part of that work is synthesized in their book Les Aracées de Guyane française. Biologie et Systématique (The Araceae of French Guyana: Biology and Systematics), published in 2015.

Lasting contribution to the Jardin botanique de Montréal

Denis Barabé was a botanist and researcher at the Jardin botanique de Montréal and the Institut de recherche en biologie végétale from 1976 to 2009. His long-term work is very much alive: numerous plants in the collections housed in the Jardin botanique greenhouses were harvested thanks to his research and missions.

It should be noted that Brother Marie-Victorin also received the Gandoger prize from the Société botanique de France in 1932.