Jules Aimé Battandier

Jules Aimé Battandier (28 January 1848 – 18 September 1922) was a French botanist who was a native of Annonay, department of Ardèche.

He was an authority on Algerian flora.

In 1875, he became head of the pharmacy at Mustapha Pacha hospital, and in 1879 was a professor to the faculty of medicine and pharmacy in Algiers.

He has several botanical species named after him, including Cytisus battandieri, commonly known as the Moroccan broom.

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