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.

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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.