Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet

Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828, Guérigny – December 18, 1911, Paris) was a French botanist.

[1] Bornet studied medicine in Paris, and in 1886 became a member of the French Académie des sciences.

[2] He helped establish the nature of lichens and was the first to find the reproductive process of red algae.

[3] In the field of lichenology, he wrote Recherches sur les gonidies des lichens (1873).

In 1877, botanist Munier-Chalmas published Bornetella is a genus of green algae in the family Dasycladaceae and named in Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet's honor.