Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars was a French botanist known for his work collecting and describing orchids from the three islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion. The standard author abbrevia
LM Aubert Du Petit Thouars 1758 1831
Angraecum crassum, a drawing of this orchid by Thouars in his book Orch. Il. Afr.
Cynorkis is a genus of orchids in the subtribe Orchidinae. Species in this genus are native to mainland Africa, the Comoro Islands, the Mascarene Islands, and Madagascar.