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Agaricus Lilaceps
''Agaricus lilaceps'', also known as the cypress agaricus or the giant cypress agaricus is a species of mushroom. It is among the largest and most edible ''Agaricus'' species in California. Aside from size, ''Agaricus lilaceps'' is characterized by a robust stature, as the stipe often club-shaped.Kerrigan, R. W. (1985). Studies in ''Agaricus'' II: ''Agaricus lilaceps'' re-evaluated. ''Mycologia'' 77: 137–141. Description The Pileus (mycology), cap of the mushroom is 8–20 cm broad, convex, and expands to nearly plane. As it ages, the disc sometimes depresses. The margin, however, is incurved, although it decurves at maturity. The surface of the cap is at first pallid to cream-buff, especially when developing below ground, but soon becomes appressed and fibrillose-squamose. In addition, it varies from brown, hazel-brown, dull chestnut-brown, and occasionally lilac-brown, although it darkens as it ages. At times, the surface develops orange-brown, rufescent areas. The con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanford Myron Zeller
Sanford Myron Zeller (19 October 1885 – 4 November 1948) was an American mycologist. Born in Coldwater, Michigan, Zeller was educated at Lawrence College in Wisconsin, then Greenville College in Illinois, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1909. He earned his doctorate in botany in 1917 at Washington University in St. Louis, and two years later started a 29-year stint as a plant pathologist and professor at the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station in Corvallis, Oregon. He published over 150 scientific papers during his career. Zeller specialized in the gasteroid fungi. Independently, he described 3 orders, 9 families, 7 genera, 81 species, and published 29 new names and combinations, as well as 3 genera, 62 species, and 59 combinations in collaborations with other scientists. Zeller was the associate editor of the scientific journal ''Phytopathology'' from 1924 to 1930. Eponymous taxa *'' Aleurodiscus zelleri'' Burt 1926 *'' Armillaria zelleri'' D.E. St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |