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] and "Plantes cryptogames de France" (1853–1861).[4] In 1827 he published a treatise on the genus Mycoderma, titled "Recherches microscopiques et physiologiques sur le genre Mycoderma".[5][6]
He was the binomial author of the fungi species Agaricus radians [7] and Aspergillus clavatus.[8]
Eponymous taxa edit
- 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 edit
References edit
- ^ 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
- ^ Universiteit Gent Archived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine Herbarium, Department of Biology
- ^ 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.