Jean Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières
French amateur mycologist (1786–1862)
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Jean Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières (10 July 1786 in Lille – 23 June 1862 in Lambersart) was a merchant of Lille and an amateur mycologist.[1] He was the editor of the scientific journals "Annales des sciences naturelles" and the "Bulletin de la société des sciences de Lille".[2]
He was creator of the exsiccatae series "Plantes cryptogames du Nord de la France" (1825–1851)[3][4] and "Plantes cryptogames de France" (1853–1861).[5][6] In 1827 he published a treatise on the genus Mycoderma, titled "Recherches microscopiques et physiologiques sur le genre Mycoderma".[7][8]
He was the binomial author of the fungi species Agaricus radians [9] and Aspergillus clavatus.[10]
Eponymous taxa
- Desmazierella Lib. (1829), genus of fungi in the family Sarcoscyphaceae,
- Desmazieria (now Ramalina and Niebla, genera of lichen)
- Neoascochyta desmazieri (Cavara) Qian Chen & L. Cai, 2015, species of fungi, (syn. Ascochyta desmazieri)
- Cainia desmazieri C.Moreau & E.Müll. ex Krug (1977)
- Meloderma desmazieri Darker, 1967
See also
- Category:Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières