Jules Aimé Battandier

Jules Aimé Battandier 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 ; five booklets,

* Algérie: Plantes médicinales, essences et parfums, L'Algérie. Le sol et les habitants. Flore, faune, géologie, anthropologie, ressources agricoles et économiques, with Louis Charles Trabut ;.