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Amanita aestivalis

However, in 1927, mycologist Louis Charles Christopher Krieger described the variant A. brunnescens var.

Amanita echinocephala

It was first described as Agaricus echinocephalus in 1835 by the Italian mycologist Carlo Vittadini, before being placed in Amanita by Lucien Quélet and hence receiving its current binomial name.

Amanita nivalis

It was first described by the Scottish mycologist Robert Kaye Greville in 1826 from specimens found growing at high altitudes in the Scottish Highlands.

Auriculariaceae

In 1922, British mycologist Carleton Rea recognized the family as containing the genera Auricularia, Eocronartium, Helicobasidium, Platygloea, and Stilbum.

Belper School

Prof David Leslie Hawksworth CBE, mycologist and lichenologist, Research Professor since 2001 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Complutense University of Madrid), President from 1986-7 of the British Lichen Society, from 1990-1 of the British Mycological Society and from 1994-7 of the International Union of Biological Sciences, and Editor from 200-8 of Mycological Research

Boletus barrowsii

It was officially described by Harry D. Thiers and Alexander H. Smith in 1976 from a specimen collected near Jacob Lake, Arizona on August 21, 1971 by amateur mycologist Charles "Chuck" Barrows, who had studied the mushroom in New Mexico.

Boletus gertrudiae

Found in North America, it was first described scientifically by mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1911, from collections made in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Boletus subvelutipes

The species was originally described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1889 from specimens collected in Saratoga, New York.

Calocybe carnea

Originally described as Agaricus carneus by the French mycologist Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard in 1792, this small pink mushroom has been through many taxonomical name changes over many years, and as a result has had many binomial names.

Carlos Chardón

Carlos E. Chardón, Puerto Rican mycologist and Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico.

Cortinarius caperatus

Later it was transferred to Pholiota in 1887 by Pier Andrea Saccardo, and then Rozites (after mycologist Ernst Roze) by Finnish mycologist Petter Adolf Karsten in 1879, and was known as Rozites caperata (Pers.) P. Karst.

Crinipellis zonata

The species was first named as Agaricus zonatus by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1872, based on specimens found near Albany, New York.

De Toni

Giovanni Battista de Toni (1864–1924), Italian botanist, mycologist, and phycologist

Deconica

Many species in Deconica were transferred there by mycologist Machiel Noordeloos in a 2009 publication.

Eckblad

Finn-Egil Eckblad (1923–2000), Norwegian mycologist, sister of Edel Eckblad

Edwin Butterworth Mains

Edwin Butterworth Mains (1890 - 1968) was an American mycologist.

Entoloma austroprunicolor

The species was first formally described in 2007 by Australian mycologist Genevieve Gates and Dutch mycologist Machiel Noordeloos, from collections made in Tasmania, Australia.

Galerina marginata

Norwegian mycologist Gro Gulden and colleagues concluded that all five represented the same species after comparing the DNA sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region of ribosomal DNA for various North American and European specimens in Galerina section Naucoriopsis.

Gaspard Adolphe Chatin

Gaspard Adolphe Chatin (30 November 1813 – 13 January 1901) was a French physician, mycologist and botanist who was born in Isère, and died in Les Essarts-le-Roi.

George Cunningham

G. H. Cunningham (George Herriot Cunningham, 1892–1962), New Zealand mycologist and plant pathologist

Giacomo Bresadola

Giacomo Bresadola (Mezzana, Trento; often given as Giacopo) 14 February 1847 – Trento 9 June 1929) was an eminent Italian mycologist.

Gomphidius glutinosus

Gomphidius glutinosus was initially described by German mycologist Jacob Christian Schäffer as Agaricus glutinosus in 1774, before the father of mycology Elias Magnus Fries gave it its current genus and binomial name in 1838.

Gyromitra infula

The fungus was first described in 1774 by German mycologist Jacob Christian Schäffer as Helvella infula (the original genus spelling was Elvela).

Hans Sydow

Hans Sydow (29 January 1879–6 June 1946) was a German mycologist, son of Paul Sydow (1851–1925).

Harold J. Brodie

Harold Johnston Brodie (December 3, 1907 – March 23, 1989) was a Canadian mycologist, known for his contributions to the knowledge of the Nidulariaceae, or bird's nest fungi.

Hartig

Robert Hartig (1839–1901), a German forestry scientist and mycologist, son of Theodor

Henry Dissing

Henry Dissing (1931 – 10 December 2009) was a Danish mycologist and specialist in cup fungi.

Hygrocybe quieta

The species was first described in 1951 by the French mycologist Robert Kühner as Hygrophorus quietus and was later moved to the genus Hygrocybe.

Jacob Christian Schäffer

Jakob or Jacob Christian Schäffer or Schäffern (30 May 1718, Querfurt – 5 January 1790) was a German dean, professor, botanist, mycologist, entomologist, ornithologist and inventor.

Julius Vincenz von Krombholz

Julius Vincenz von Krombholz (December 19, 1782 – November 1, 1843) was a physician and mycologist born in Oberpolitz (today Horní Police, Czech Republic), northern Bohemia.

Laboulbeniales

Foundational work on the Laboulbeniales was completed by the American mycologist Roland Thaxter (1858–1932), particularly in a five-volume illustrated series (1896–1931).

Louis Secretan

Louis (Gabriel Abraam Samuel Jean) Secretan (1758–1839 in Lausanne), was a Swiss lawyer and mycologist.

Mycena californiensis

The specimen was sent by American mycologist Moses Ashley Curtis to his British colleague Miles Joseph Berkeley, who published a brief description of the species in 1860, calling it Agaricus californiensis, in what was then the subgenus Mycena.

Ohio Wesleyan Female College

Flora Wambaugh Patterson, 1847-1928, mycologist at the USDA who worked on numerous important fungal diseases

P. D. Orton

He frequently visited his friend and fellow mycologist T.J. Wallace in Membury, Devon, publishing a number of new agaric species from Dawlish Warren and other Devon localities.

Psilocybe aztecorum

The species was first reported by French mycologist Roger Heim in 1956 as a variety of Psilocybe mexicana before he officially described it under its current name a year later.

The species was first mentioned by French mycologist Roger Heim in 1956 based on material collected by American ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson in Paso de Cortés, on the slopes of Popocatépetl mountain in Mexico.

Psilocybe hispanica

The species was described by Mexican mycologist Gastón Guzmán in a 2000 publication, based on specimens collected by Ignacio Seral Bozal near Huesca in northern Spain in 1995.

Psilocybe muliercula

Unable to locate this species in the field, botanist Roger Heim and mycologist Rolf Singer based their descriptions of this mushroom on dried specimens purchased from Matlatzinca Indians in the marketplace of Tenango del Valle, in the Nevado de Toluca region of the state of Mexico.

Saccardo

Pier Andrea Saccardo (23 April 1845 in Treviso, Treviso – 12 February 1920 in Padua ) was an Italian botanist and mycologist.

Soběslav

František Kotlaba ( 20.května 1927 ve Vlastiboři); botanist, mycologist, science assistant of National museum and Botanical institute ČSAV, publicists.

Sydow

Hans Sydow (author abbreviation Syd., 1879–1946), a German mycologist, son of Paul

Tom Petch

Petch had an early interest in natural history, but Charles Plowright, a doctor and mycologist in King's Lynn, encouraged him to study fungi.

Tricholoma terreum

It was originally described as Agaricus terreus by Jacob Christian Schäffer in 1762, and as Agaricus myomyces by mycologist Christian Hendrik Persoon in 1794.

Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus

The species was first named 1936 as Boletus felleus forma plumbeoviolaceus by American mycologist Walter H. Snell and one of his graduate students, Esther A. Dick, based on specimens found in the Black Rock Forest near Cornwall, New York.

Wynnea

American mycologist Roland Thaxter described a new species in 1905, W. americana, which was collected in Tennessee.

Wynnea americana

Wynnea americana was first described in 1905 by American mycologist Roland Thaxter.


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