Jean Louis Marie Poiret

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

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

[1] "Poiretia, la revue naturaliste du Maghreb" is a free online natural history journal created in 2008.

It discusses (in French) the flora and fauna inventory, description, and mapping in north-western Africa (Maghreb).

Its name is dedicated to Jean Louis Marie Poiret, as a tribute to his famous Voyage en Barbarie published in 1789.