Maurice-Augustin Gomont (born 1839, in Rouen – died 1909, in Rouen) was a French phycologist.M. éD. Bornet (1909) Maurice-Augustin Gomont (1839–1909), Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, 56:6, 440–449,
Works Gomont, M (1892). "Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique. 7 (16).
Honours Gomontia, which is a genus of green algae, in the family Gomontiaceae and also Gomontiellaceae, which is a family of cyanobacteria, were both named in 1888 by botanists Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet and Charles Henri Marie Flahault after Maurice Gomont. Gomontiellaceae are a family of cyanobacteria, with Gomontiella, a species named in 1901.
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