Jean Louis Marie Poiret


Jean Louis Marie Poiret was a French clergyman, botanist and explorer.
From 1785 to 1786 he was sent by Louis XVI to Algeria to study the flora. After the French Revolution he became a professor of natural history at the Écoles Centrale of Aisne.
The genus Poiretia of the legume family Fabaceae was named after him in 1807 by Étienne Pierre Ventenat.

Selected publications

is a free online natural history journal created in 2008. It discusses the flora and fauna inventory, description and mapping in north-western Africa. Its name is dedicated to Jean Louis Marie Poiret, as a tribute to his famous Voyage en Barbarie published in 1789.