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Harry D. Thiers
Harry Delbert Thiers (January 22, 1919 in Fort McKavett, Texas – August 8, 2000 in Ohio) was an American mycologist who studied and named many fungi native to North America, particularly California. Thiers taught mycology at San Francisco State University. He comprehensively revised and expanded on the North American collection of boletes and named many new species. Species authored include: *''Suillellus amygdalinus'' *''Boletus barrowsii'' *''Xerocomellus dryophilus'' *''Rubroboletus pulcherrimus'' *''Gymnopilus luteoviridis'' *''Leccinum manzanitae'' *''Russula xanthoporphyrea'' The fungal genera of ''Chaetothiersia'' and ''Harrya'' , and also the species of ''Cortinarius thiersii'' were all named in his honor. References External links"MSSF mourns Harry Thiers" by Mike Boom, ''Mycena News'' 50(9):1,7, September 2000. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thiers, Harry D. American mycologists People from Menard County, Texas 1919 births 2000 deaths 20th-century American botanists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort McKavett, Texas
Fort McKavett is a ghost town in Menard County, Texas, United States that was occupied for a while by local Hispanics after its decommissioning as a fort until the 1970s. It lies at the intersections of Farm to Market Road 864 and Farm to Market Road 1674, 20 miles southwest of the county seat, Menard. Its elevation is 2,169 feet (661 m). It has a post office with the ZIP code 76841. History The settlement of Fort McKavett had its 1850s origins as a civilian population just north of Camp San Saba in Menard County (not the Camp San Saba in McCulloch County), with the name of Scabtown. Camp San Saba closed in 1859, and many residents fled to safer areas to be protected against Indian depredations. The United States Army reopened the outpost in 1869 as Fort McKavett. As the civilian population of Scabtown grew, the community was renamed after Fort McKavett, and the local economy began to thrive. The Army closed the fort in 1883, but the earlier relocation of native A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leccinum Manzanitae
''Leccinum manzanitae'' is an edible species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. Described as new to science in 1971, it is commonly known as the manzanita bolete for its usual mycorrhizal association with manzanita trees. Its fruit bodies (mushrooms) have sticky reddish to brown caps up to , and its stipes are up to long and thick. They have a whitish background color punctuated with small black scales known as ''scabers''. Found only in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada, it is the most common ''Leccinum'' species in California. The mushroom is edible, although opinions vary as to its quality. ''L. manzanitae'' can be usually distinguished from other similar bolete mushrooms by its large size, reddish cap, dark scabers on a whitish stipe, and association with manzanita and madrone. Taxonomy ''Leccinum manzanitae'' was first described by the American mycologist Harry Delbert Thiers in 1971, from collections made in San Mateo Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Births
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People From Menard County, Texas
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American Mycologists
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Mycena News
The Mycological Society of San Francisco (MSSF) is an amateur club based in the San Francisco Bay Area, "dedicated to promoting the understanding and enjoyment of fungi." Meetings are held every third Tuesday, and the society newsletter, ''Mycena News'', is published once a month during the mushroom season, from September to May. Activities In addition to the general meetings, members hold numerous formal and informal fungi-hunting "forays" throughout the year. The Society also hosts an annual "Fungus Fair" aimed at educating the general public with mushroom displays, identification booths, and fungus-oriented activities. Community MSSF members often lend their expertise in mushroom identification to local authorities in possible poisoning cases. Since many of these occur to recent immigrants from countries with edible lookalikes, the Society has also produced a number of posters with pictures and warnings in multiple languages. In line with their goals of promoting the enjoy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cortinarius Thiersii
''Cortinarius thiersii'' is a basidiomycete fungus of the genus ''Cortinarius'' native to North America. See also *List of Cortinarius species, List of ''Cortinarius'' species References External links * Cortinarius, verecundus Fungi of North America Fungi described in 1977 Taxa named by Alexander H. Smith {{Cortinariaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrya
''Harrya'' is a fungal genus in the family Boletaceae. It was circumscribed in 2012 to contain the species '' Harrya atriceps'' and the type ''Harrya chromapes''. The genus name of ''Harrya'' is in honour of Harry Delbert Thiers (1919–2000), who was an American mycologist who studied and named many fungi native to North America, particularly California. Species As accepted by Species Fungorum ''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (scientific names) in the fungus kingdom. the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partners along with Landcare Research and the Institute of M ...; * '' Harrya alpina'' * '' Harrya atriceps'' * '' Harrya atrogrisea'' * '' Harrya chromipes'' * '' Harrya moniliformis'' * '' Harrya subalpina'' References External links * Boletaceae Boletales genera [Baidu] |
Chaetothiersia
''Chaetothiersia'' is a fungal genus in the family Pyronemataceae. It is monotypic, containing the single species ''Chaetothiersia vernalis'' collected from the northern High Sierra Nevada of California. It has been found growing in groups on the decaying wood and bark of the conifer ''Abies magnifica''. Description This species is characterized by having stiff brown hairs on the surface of the ectal excipulum, the outer layer of the apothecium. The ectal excipulum is thin, and made of roughly spherical to somewhat spherical/angular cells. Its ascospores are smooth, and do not contain oil droplets. Etymology The etymology of the generic name is derived from the Greek ''chaeto'', meaning hairy (a reference to both the external hairs on the cups and to Dr. Thiers' first name), and "thiersia", in honor of mycologist Harry Thiers, one of the first to collect this specimen. Lookalikes Genera with species that bear a resemblance to ''C. vernalis'' include ''Geopora ''Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russula Xanthoporphyrea
''Russula xanthoporphyrea'' is a mushroom in the family Russulaceae The Russulaceae are a diverse family of fungi in the order Russulales, with roughly 1,900 known species and a worldwide distribution. They comprise the brittlegills and the milk-caps, well-known mushroom-forming fungi that include some edible ... native to North America. See also *'' List of ''Russula'' species'' References External links * xanthoporphyrea Fungi of North America Fungi described in 1997 {{Russulales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnopilus Luteoviridis
''Gymnopilus luteoviridis'' is a widely distributed mushroom-forming fungus of the Eastern United States that contains the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin. Description * Pileus: 2.5-4 cm in diameter, moderately thick (4–5 mm), convex to subconic with an incurved margin when young, becoming nearly flat. Straw yellow to mustard yellow, smooth, conspicuously fibrillose, with pale fulvous scales along the margin and becoming olivaceous towards the center of the cap, flesh the same color as the surface. Staining greenish where injured. *Gills: Adnate to adnexed with a short decurrent tooth, thin, close to subdistant, cream buff to dark yellow, becoming rusty brown with age, edges the same color as the gill face. *Spore print: Rusty brown. * Stipe: 4–6 cm x 0.3—0.5 cm, tapering slightly at the apex, stuffed to hollow, surface dry, glabrous, vertically striate, yellowish buff, staining greenish when handled or in age, the partial veil sometimes for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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