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.
Selected publications
* ''Atlas de la flore d'Algerie'' (Atlas on the flora of Algeria); five booklets, (1886-1920)
Flore d'Algerie (1888)(with
Louis Charles Trabut)
* ''Algérie: Plantes médicinales, essences et parfums'' (Algeria: Herbs, essences and perfumes), (1889)
* ''L'Algérie. Le sol et les habitants. Flore, faune, géologie, anthropologie, ressources agricoles et économiques'' ((Algeria, the land and its people, Flora, fauna,
geology,
anthropology, agricultural resources and economics), with
Louis Charles Trabut (1853-1929); (1898).
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References
* ''This article is based on a translation of an article from the
French Wikipedia.''
1848 births
1922 deaths
People from Annonay
19th-century French botanists
Algerian physicians
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