Jean Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières (10 July 1786 in Lille – 23 June 1862 in Lambersart) was a merchant of Lille and an amateur mycologist. He was the editor of the scientific journals "Annales des sciences naturelles" and the "Bulletin de la société des sciences de Lille".
He was creator of the exsiccatae series "Plantes cryptogames du Nord de la France" (1825–1851) and "Plantes cryptogames de France" (1853–1861). In 1827 he published a treatise on the genus Mycoderma, titled "Recherches microscopiques et physiologiques sur le genre Mycoderma".
He was the binomial author of the fungi species Agaricus radians and Aspergillus clavatus.
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
References
- Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- Anon (1862). "Notice nécrologique sur J.-H. Desmazières". Bulletin de la Société de Botanique de Belgique (in French). 1 (1): 102–5. JSTOR 20790166.
- GBIF France Archived 2014-01-16 at the Wayback Machine Consultation de la collection: Plantes cryptogames du nord de la France. J.B.H.J.Desmazières
- "Plantes cryptogames du nord de la France, Ed. 1: IndExs ExsiccataID=670804261". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
- Universiteit Gent Archived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine Herbarium, Department of Biology
- "Plantes cryptogames de France, Ed. 2, Series 2: IndExs ExsiccataID=119256437". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
- MycoBank Archived 2014-01-16 at the Wayback Machine Recherches microscopiques et physiologiques sur le genre Mycoderma.
- Mushroom the Journal biographical information
- Mycobank Agaricus radians
- Mycobank Aspergillus clavatus
- International Plant Names Index. Desm.