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This article is about the botanist Jean Poiret. For the scriptwriter and actor, see Jean Poiret.

Jean Louis Marie Poiret ( 11 June 1755 in Saint-Quentin - 7 April 1834 in Paris) was a French clergyman, botanist and explorer.

From 1785 to 1786 he was sent by Louis XVI to Algeria to study the flora. After the French Revolution he became a professor of natural history at the Écoles Centrale of Aisne.

The genus Poiretia of the Fabaceae was named after him in 1807 by Étienne Pierre Ventenat.

The standard author abbreviation Poir. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

[edit] Selected publications

Leçons de flore: Cours complet de botanique 1819-1820 (illus. by P. J. F. Turpin).
Voyage en Barbarie, …, pendant les années 1785 et 1786 1789.
Histoire philosophique, littéraire, économique des plantes d'Europe 1825-1829.
with Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck Encyclopédie méthodique: Botanique 1789-1817.
with Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature: Botanique 1819-1823.

[edit] Tribute

"Poiretia, la revue naturaliste du Maghreb" is a free online naturalistic journal created in 2008. It talks (in french) about flora and fauna inventory, description and mapping in north-western Africa (Maghreb). Its name is signed to Jean Louis Marie Poiret, as a tribute to its famous « Voyage en Barbarie » edited in 1789.

[edit] References

^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

Zander, Robert et al. (eds.) (1984) Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen (13^th ed.) Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.

[0] "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

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