Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier (June 1873,
Domfront – June 1956, Paris) was a French
botanist,
taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of
French colonial empire Africa that included
Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in
South America and
tropical Asia. Chevalier was a prolific contributor to the knowledge of African plants, studying forest trees and their woods,
grasses, and agricultural plants of the continent. Unlike other botanists who studied the plants of tropical Africa, Chevalier also ranged to the floral regions of the
Sahara.