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Entoloma Bloxamii
''Entoloma bloxamii'' is a species of agaric (gilled mushroom) in the family Entolomataceae. It has been given the recommended English name of big blue pinkgill. The species has a European distribution, occurring mainly in agriculturally unimproved grassland. ''Entoloma bloxamii'' has been reported from North America, but at least some of these reports represent a distinct species, '' Entoloma medianox''. Threats to its habitat have resulted in the Big Blue Pinkgill being assessed as globally " vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Taxonomy The species was originally described from England in 1854 and named ''Agaricus Bloxami'' (sic) by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome, in honour of its collector, the naturalist and clergyman Andrew Bloxam. It was transferred to the genus '' Entoloma'' by the Italian mycologist Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1887. Recent molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has shown that ''Entol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Bresadola
Giacomo Bresadola ( Mezzana, Trento; often given as Giacopo) 14 February 1847 – Trento 9 June 1929) was an eminent Italian mycologist. Fungi he named include the deadly ''Lepiota helveola'' and ''Inocybe patouillardii'', though the latter is now known as '' Inosperma erubescens'' as this latter description predated Bresadola's by a year. He was a founding member of the ''Société mycologique de France'' (Mycology Society of France). Life Bresadola was born in 1847 into a farming family in Trent, then an Austrian possession. From a very early age, he showed an interest in botany. After attending elementary school at Mezzana, he was sent by his father to Cloz in the Val di Non at the age of nine to continue his studies with his uncle who was a priest. His uncle, however, considered him too rambunctious and quickly sent him home again. In 1857, his father moved to Montichiari in Brescia to become a bronze merchant. At twelve years of age, he left to study at the technical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |