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]