John Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières

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][4] and "Plantes cryptogames de France" (1853–1861).

[5][6] In 1827 he published a treatise on the genus Mycoderma, titled "Recherches microscopiques et physiologiques sur le genre Mycoderma".

[7][8] He was the binomial author of the fungi species Agaricus radians [9] and Aspergillus clavatus.