Cordierites Boedijnii
''Cordierites'' is a genus of fungi in the family Cordieritidaceae. The genus name of ''Cordierites'' is in honour of François Simon Cordier (1797-1874), a French Military doctor and botanist (Mycology), he was a founder member and president of the Société botanique de France in 1872. The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Jean Pierre François Camille Montagne in Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 2, Vol.14 on page 330 in 1840. Species The following species are recognised in the genus ''Cordierites'': *''Cordierites acanthophorus'' *''Cordierites boedijnii'' *''Cordierites coralloides'' Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1869) *''Cordierites fasciculata'' Möller (1901) *''Cordierites guyanensis'' *''Cordierites muscoides'' Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1875) *''Cordierites umbilicarioides'' References

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Camille Montagne
Jean Pierre François Camille Montagne (15 February 1784 – 5 December 1866) was a French military physician and botanist who specialized in the fields of bryology and mycology. He was born in the commune of Vaudoy in the department of Seine-et-Marne. At the age of 14, Montagne joined the French navy, and took part in Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. In 1802 he returned to France to study medicine, and two years later became a military surgeon. In 1832, at the age of 48 he retired from military service to concentrate on the study of cryptogams ( mosses, algae, lichens and fungi). In 1853 he was elected a member of the Académie des sciences. In 1845 he was one of the first scientists (with Marie-Anne Libert) to provide a description of ''Phytophthora infestans'', a potato blight fungus he referred to as ''Botrytis infestans''. Montagne is also known for investigations of mycological species native to Guyane. He contributed numerous articles to the ''Archives de Botanique'' and the ...
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