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John Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières

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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

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