Jacques Désiré Leandri

{{Short description|French botanist and mycologist}}

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Jacques Désiré Leandri, born 1903 in Corsica, died 1982, was a French botanist and mycologist.

Leandri is remembered for botanical excursions in North Africa (Morocco) and Madagascar. He collected plants for scientific study from the years 1922 to 1980.[http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000004847] JSTOR Plant Science The plant genus Leandriella from the family Acanthaceae is named after him.[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://coldb.mnhn.fr/ScientificName/leandriella/valvata&ei=k-PWTqjBMOng2AWk3c1s&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=8&sqi=2&ved=0CFoQ7gEwBw&prev=/search%3Fq%3DLeandriella%2BLeandri%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D571%26prmd%3Dimvns] Herbarium Musei Parisiensis{{cite web |title=Leandriella Benoist {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:695-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 May 2021 |language=en}} As a taxonomist, he circumscribed many plants within the family Euphorbiaceae.[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Leandri&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI] List of plants described & co-described by Leandri